Transport, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Potteries Street Railway Co Ltd, modern oval brass restrike, legend, rev. horse-drawn omnibus, Marble Arch in background, 24 x 18mm, 3.87g/12h (cf. Smith 730PB); Yorkshire, Sheffield, Sheffield & Heeley Omnibus, John Shortridge, oval brass Threepence, 1852, value, rev. horse-drawn omnibus, 27 x 18mm, 3.01g/6h (Smith 685C) [2]. Very fine £30-40

Provenance: D.C. Pottinger Collection [first from S.E. Schwer January 1985, *second from J. Whitmore May 1999).

Staffordshire Potteries Street Railway Co, also founded by G.F. Train, opened in January 1862, the fare being threepence (including a toll gate fee); John Shortridge (1804-69), civil engineer and railway contractor, Heeley, established his omnibus service, from the Royal Hotel, Sheffield, to Heeley, on 19 January 1852, but Shortridge died as a result of a horse carriage accident in Heeley on 8 May 1869