You might recall when they advertised Binns. Some of you might even be too young to remember when they had a top deck.
But Sunderland’s buses have always been there we needed them – or if they haven’t, two of them soon turned up at once to make up for it.
Take a conducted tour of 27 photos celebrating ‘the chariot of the people’ in our city.
1. Busman's holiday
A bus drivers' outing from July, 1977. Did they take turns at the wheel? Photo: Sunderland Echo
2. Old yeller
Southwick residents arrive on a 1970s bus as they view an exhibition on the "old days". Feeling old yet? Photo: Sunderland Echo
3. Heading for the seaside
An open-top bus for the promenade, in June, 1958. Photo: Sunderland Echo
4. What a drag
The strongest man in England Eddy Ellwood took part in the bus pull challenge at Durham County Show in 2005. Photo: Sunderland Echo