It's hard to imagine that bus passengers at one stage travelled on this derelict vehicle in Oxford.

The picture, taken in 1990, shows the body of one of the city’s first motor buses.

The motor buses came into service in 1914, replacing horse-drawn trams which had provided transport around the city for more than 30 years.

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The vehicle above was rescued from a garden in Sandfield Road, Headington, where it had been used as a shed for 61 years.

It was hauled out of the garden by crane and taken to the Oxford Bus Museum at Long Hanborough for restoration.

Nick Taylor, from the museum, said it was common for old buses to be used as sheds in the 1920s and 1930s because their bodies were made of wood.

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