Stirling 12 h.p.

A very early bus with a full load of passengers, registration number is S 486. This was in fact the first bus to come to the Northern Isles. The Stirling built in 1905 was made at Granton, which was one of two identical vehicles in the Orkney Motor Express fleet operated between Kirkwall and Stromness by a syndicate of local businessmen headed by E. J. Robertson-Grant of the Highland Park Distillery, Kirkwall, Orkney Isles, seen here at the wheel. The Stirling proved unreliable and by 1909 the buses were withdrawn and the service reverted back to horse-drawn coaches.