The new company developed a fleet of omnibuses to serve the rest of the city and country areas.

William Verdon Smith (nephew of Sir George White) remained as chairman but was replaced in 1935 by J.F.

A bomb hit Counterslip bridge, St Philips, next to the Tramways generating centre, and severed the tram power supply.

[3] Another memorial to the system is a length of tram track still embedded in St Mary Redcliffe churchyard, where it was blown by a bomb.

Another section of track used to be still in place near Castle Park, but this was lost when the area was redeveloped as part of the Cabot Circus development.