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Jim Soper Bus Launch Ceremony | First Leeds | Hunslet Park Bus Depot

This video is from the Jim Soper Bus Dedication event that took place at Hunslet Park depot on Friday 4th September 2020. For more information on the Leeds Transport Historical Society (LTHS) and to purchase the Leeds City Transport books written by Jim Soper please visit their website: www.lths.co.uk Jim was born in Leeds in 1934, the son of a garage proprietor and has always been interested in transport. He worked for a time at his father's garage in Chapel Allerton. At first, he lived at Alwoodley and then Meanwood. From March 1939 to November 1957 he lived at 160 Harrogate Rd, Chapel Allerton. From the window of his bedroom he had a grandstand view of the trams passing every few minutes, to and from Moortown and Roundhay. From 1940 to 1943 he attended Chapeltown Council School and was then evacuated to Buckden House, Wharfedale, for a year with the juniors at Leeds Grammar School. In 1944 he returned to the school in Leeds. His interests in local transport and the environment developed in his early tram rides to and from school. After doing two years National Service in Germany with the RAF he studied at the Leeds School of Architecture for five years and in 1962 qualified as an architect. Three years later he obtained a Diploma in Town Planning. He was responsible for many types and sizes of building. He retired in 1999. His interests led him to recording the later years of the tramway in great photographic detail and becoming a founder member of the Leeds Transport Historical Society. He has written five volumes of the History of Leeds Transport- over 2000 A4 pages. His other books include Leeds Transport on Postcards, Leeds Transport in Colour, and Leeds Pubs and Cinemas by Tram. Jim is a past president of the Tramway Museum Society, and for the past 35 years has been the volunteer architectural advisor to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in Derbyshire. He played an active role at the museum in architectural building and infrastructure matters. As well as writing books for the Leeds Transport Historical Society he has also been involved in the restoration of Leeds tramcars 399, rail derrick 2, and horse car 107. From 1971 until his death aged 85, he had lived at Bramham just outside Leeds. This bus was unveiled by his family in September 2020. Most days, this Leeds City bus will travel along Harrogate Road, Roundhay Road, Dewsbury Road, Hunslet Road, Belle Isle Road and through the city centre, and a new generation of children can admire the sleek modern buses, just as Jim and his colleagues admired the trams of the 1950s. (This section of text complied by John Holmes, Ian Dougill and James Fairchild and is present within the vehicle itself) The bus in question that has been named is recently purchased Daimler Wrights Streetdeck 35562 based at the Hunslet Park depot and branded for the Dewsbury Road corridor services.