Posted as late as 1938, this commercial card shows Keighley Corporation Tramways 7, WT7103, which was a Straker-Clough "Squire" trackless with a Brush H26/24RO body dating from 1924.
It is seen en-route to Ingrow on a tram replacement service taken over by trackless cars in 1924. Sister car 5 is now under restoration at the Keighley Bus Museum (as illustrated on this site) and single-deck Straker-Clough 12 is under long-term restoration at Beamish.
Keighley had a remarkable trackless history, first operating single-deck Cedes-Stoll cars on out-of-town tramway feeder services to Oakworth, Oxenhope and Sutton from as early as 1913, but by 1926 these had been replaced by buses.

Keighley's tram system, with services to Ingrow, Stockbridge and Utley, was replaced by Straker-Clough tracklesses in 1924. This gave Keighley the dubious distinction of being the UK's first municipality to abandon its tramway system and the first complete tram-to-trackless system conversion. However, all trackless services were replaced by buses on 31st August 1932. The joint Keighley-West Yorkshire Services Ltd undertaking was registered on 2nd September and Keighley Corporation Tramways Department (as it was still known) ran its last buses on 30th September, 1932.

Photo from commercial postcard, Paul Haywood Collection, taken circa 1930, North Street, Keighley

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