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Page last updated 08 November 2008
Details of the activities of OTA since January 2003 appear below.   The list includes items such as public talks given by OTA members using Archive material, releases of material by OTA or through OTA's agents, and use of OTA images in published, broadcast and video material.   Unsung work includes the collection, sorting, cataloguing, restoration and digitising of material, plus the business administration associated with running an organisation of this type.

 

Pending activities:
Books in production using OTA material: Heyday of Crosville (Martin Jenkins and Charles Roberts), Merseyside Electrics (Jonathan Cadwallader and Martin Jenkins)

 

December 2008: Annual General Meeting - click here for Directors' Report.
Various dates in 2007/2008: OTA material used in the following publications: Bygone Edinburgh, Bygone London, Lost London, Glory Days - Yorkshire Traction, Glory Days - North Western, The Manchester Trolleybus, The Midland around London, Nottingham trolleybuses, Double-deck trolleybuses of the world, The development of the modern tram, Southport in the age of steam
November 2007: Annual General Meeting - click here for Directors' Report.
November 2007: Talk by Charles Roberts to the RCTS, Port Sunlight, Wirral.
August 2007: Publication of Streets of Liverpool (Martin Jenkins and Charles Roberts) as a fundraising exercise for OTA.
April 2007: Talk by Charles Roberts to the PSV Circle, Manchester.
March 2007: Talk by Martin Jenkins to the TMS, Leicester.
March 2007:Talk by Charles Roberts to the Roads and Road Transport History Association: Online Transport Archive.
March 2007: Release of OTA PhotoCD Birkenhead Buses using colour images from the Charles Roberts collection.   Being sold through the Merseyside Transport Trust to assist with their fundraising; contact OTA or the MTT for details.
Various dates during 2006/2007: OTA material used in the following publications: Railways around Clapham Junction, London Transport in exile, Bygone London (all Kevin McCormack), Streets of Brighton, Southdown days (both John Bishop and Glynn Kraemer-Johnson), Streets of Glasgow (Alan Millar), London trolleybuses: a class album (Hugh Taylor), Nottingham trolleybuses (David Bowler), Ipswich trolleybuses (Colin Barker), Brighton trolleybuses (Andrew Henbest), Grimsby and Cleethorpes trolleybuses (Colin Barker), Double deck trams of the world (Brian Patton), A trolleybus to the Punchbowl (Philip J Taylor)
Various dates during 2006: OTA footage used in Online Video releases: French trams: the first generation and No trolleys to Piccadilly.
November 2006: Transfer of OTA material into permanent accommodation courtesy of Ian Allan Publishing
November 2006: Annual General Meeting - click here for Directors' Report.
November 2006:Talk by Martin Jenkins to the STTS, Glasgow.
November 2006:Talk by Charles Roberts to the Rowley Regis Railway Society: An evening of images from the Online Transport Archive, using material from the Allan Clayton, Mike Stokes and Jack Parkinson collections.
October 2006: Talk by Martin Jenkins to the TMS, Wickham.
October 2006: Release of OTA PhotoCD Wallasey Buses using colour images from the Charles Roberts collection.   Being sold through the Merseyside Transport Trust to assist with their fundraising; contact OTA or the MTT for details.
October 2006:Talk by Charles Roberts to the Merseyside Bus Club: Wallasey Corporation and Birkenhead Corporation, using material from the R L Wilson collection.
April 2006: Talk by Charles Roberts to the Merseyside Historic and Transport Society (HATS): An evening of images from the Online Transport Archive, using material from the Allan Clayton, Jack Parkinson and R L Wilson collections.
March 2006: Release of OTA PhotoCD MPTE Buses using colour images from the Charles Roberts collection.   Being sold through the Merseyside Transport Trust to assist with their fundraising; contact OTA or the MTT for details.
March 2006: Various OTA images used in Trolleybus Magazine.
January 2006: Talk by Martin Jenkins to the Leicester Branch of the Tramway Museum Society (TMS) using images from various collections held by OTA.
February 2006: Talk by Charles Roberts to the Merseyside Railway History Group: An evening of images from the Online Transport Archive, using material from the Allan Clayton, Jack Parkinson and R L Wilson collections.
February 2006: Talk by Charles Roberts to the Merseyside Bus Club: Liverpool Buses, using material from the R L Wilson collection.
February 2006: Release of first OTA PhotoCD.   Liverpool Buses - 100 black and white images from the R L Wilson collection.  Contact OTA for details.
January 2006: Talk by Martin Jenkins to the London Branch of the Tramway and Light Railway Society (TLRS) using images from various collections held by OTA.
Various dates during 2005: OTA footage used in Online Video releases: Routemaster Heyday, Tramway Exotica 3, South Lancashire and St Helens Trolleybuses, French trams - the first generation.   Access Online Video's website for details.   [Please note that Online Video is an entirely separate entity from OTA.]
December 2005: OTA footage of Liverpool trams used in BBC North West news bulletin.
December 2005: Annual General Meeting - click here for Directors' Report.
Summer 2005: John Eades/OTA footage of Birmingham trams used in ITV Central The way we were.
Summer 2005: Various OTA images used in Middleton Press publications Brighton Trolleybuses, Ipswich Trolleybuses and Teesside Trolleybuses.
July 2005: Letter about OTA's activities in The Railway Magazine, accompanied by a picture from the Jack Parkinson collection.
April 2005: Illustrations in London Transport in colour (K McCormack, pub Ian Allan).
March 2005: All change feature in The Railway Magazine featuring comparative photographs by Allan Clayton and Charles Roberts.
January 2005: Illustrations in London Transport in exile (K McCormack, pub Ian Allan).
December 2004: Annual General Meeting - click here for Directors' Report.
October 2004: Film of Liverpool trams used in BBC North West Politics Show.
Summer 2004: Article 'Where there's a will' by Martin Jenkins in Scottish Transport accompanied by photographs taken by G H Bett and R & J Braun.   Click here for the text of this article.
November 2003: Photo feature in Classic Bus featuring colour photographs by R L Wilson, whose collection is administered by OTA.
Summer 2003: Various illustrations in The tramways of South Lancashire and North Wales (J C Gillham and R J S Wiseman, published by the Light Rail Transit Association).
Summer 2003: Illustrations in Mersey Ferries volume 2: the Wallasey Ferries (T B Maund and Martin Jenkins, published by Black Dwarf Publications).
February 2003: Talk by Charles Roberts to the Festiniog Railway Society in Manchester, using slides from the Allan Clayton and Jack Parkinson collections.
April 2002: Talk by Charles Roberts to the Wirral Railway Circle in Birkenhead, using slides from the Allan Clayton and Jack Parkinson collections
Pre-2003: OTA footage has appeared in Online Video releases: Steam around Speyside, Steam in the Reseau Breton, London's lost docks, St Petersburg: a tramway in crisis.

 

 
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