The first five were delivered ready for the opening of the new services on 28 January 1914, but their Dennis chassis were requisitioned by the War Department in November the same year.

Bodywork was predominantly double-deck from a variety of coachbuilders, but from 1934, most were built by Park Royal with East Lancs being favoured from 1960.

To begin with, the UDC buses primarily provided services in West Bridgford, some of which connected to the terminus of the Nottingham Corporation Tramways system at Trent Bridge.

From 1928, Nottingham City Transport and West Bridgford UDC collaborated on a group of jointly-operated bus routes, where each company provided a proportion of the vehicles and received a share of the receipts.

The Clifton routes ran along Wilford Lane, which passed beneath a low railway bridge.

West Bridgford UDC decided to sell the whole fleet, and the last UDC-owned buses ran on the evening of 28 September 1968.