Black Dice Watch Manual there. A in Toronto A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a designed to carry many. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the, with larger loads carried by and, and smaller loads carried by and; are used for longer-distance services.

Many types of buses, such as city transit buses and inter-city coaches, charge a fare. Other types, such as elementary or secondary school buses or shuttle buses within a post-secondary education campus do not charge a fare. In many jurisdictions, require a special licence above and beyond a regular. Buses may be used for,,, private hire, or; promotional buses may be used for and others are privately operated for a wide range of purposes, including rock and pop band tour vehicles. Were used from the 1820s, followed by in the 1830s, and electric in 1882.

The first buses, or, were used in 1895. Recently, interest has been growing in,, and, as well as ones powered. As of the 2010s, is increasingly, with the same designs appearing around the world. World's first trolleybus, Berlin 1882 In parallel to the development of the bus was the invention of the electric trolleybus, typically fed through. The Siemens brothers, in England and in Germany, collaborated on the development of the trolleybus concept. Sanskrit Unicode Keyboard here.

Sir William first proposed the idea in an article to the in 1881 as an '.arrangement by which an ordinary omnibus.would have a suspender thrown at intervals from one side of the street to the other, and two wires hanging from these suspenders; allowing contact rollers to run on these two wires, the current could be conveyed to the tram-car, and back again to the dynamo machine at the station, without the necessity of running upon rails at all.' The first such vehicle, the, was made by his brother Dr. Ernst Werner von Siemens and presented to the public in 1882 in,. Although this experimental vehicle fulfilled all the technical criteria of a typical trolleybus, it was dismantled in the same year after the demonstration.