ABSTRACT
For young Europeans of the 1960s and 1970s ‘Going Greyhound’ across the USA had great appeal. It was not only that ‘taking the daaawg’ was for many their equivalent of the film Easy Rider, it was also that Greyhound was and still is a part of American history, having a brand name to rank with Coke, Levis and McDonalds. Neither the bus industry nor its clients fully recovered from the legacies of the Second World War. Problems of overcrowding, poor rolling stock, erratic timetabling and changing bus personnel left a negative image of being ‘on the buses’. Making Connections explores the varied fortunes of the long-distance or intercity bus industry from its beginnings in the second decade of the twentieth century to deregulation in 1982. A coherent body of corporate records, together with public records from the government and from the industry generally, would have provided the means of undertaking such a business history.
