Western SMT Buses

The Western Scottish Motor Traction Company, or Western SMT for short, was formed in 1929. From then until 1985, when the company, which had been absorbed into the Scottish Bus Group, was broken up into Clydeside Scottish and Western Scottish, the company operated bus services throughout the south-west of Scotland including Ayr, Dumfries, Greenock, Johnstone, Kilmarnock and Paisley, as well as to Carlisle on the other side of the border and to the islands of Islay and Bute. In this book, transport enthusiast and photographer David Devoy looks at the buses of Western SMT and tells the story of road transport in this part of south-west Scotland using a collection of images that will bring back memories of the region from times past.