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By Walter Burt

Walter Alexander first started operating a motor bus carrier from Falkirk to Grangemouth in 1913 and providers have endured within the sector ever due to the fact that, lower than the auspices of Scottish Motor Traction, Walter Alexander & Co., and latterly Midland Scottish, later privatised and now lower than the auspices of the 1st team. Midland Scottish was once the biggest bus operator within the districts of Stirling, Clackmannanshire and Falkirk and used to be chargeable for providers in and round the cities of Stirling, Falkirk, Linlithgow, Grangemouth, Bo'ness and Oban. during this booklet, bus driving force and native historian Walter Burt makes use of a suite of interval and modern photos to provide the reader a nostalgic glance again on the background of Midland Scottish and its cars from the 1st omnibuses operated by means of Walter Alexander to the double-deckers of First workforce today

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