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==History==
The general manager of the Clough Teesside project developed a new and improved trolleybus design<ref name="Lumb48"/> and Clough, Smith arranged for it to be manufactured. It was marketed as the ''Straker-Clough trolley omnibus''. This chassis and design came to be regarded as both pioneering and improving the industry standard.<ref name="L49"/> The chassis was manufactured by [[Straker-Squire#Bus manufacturing|Straker-Squire]], the electrical equipment by BTH of [[Bath, Somerset]], and Clough arranged production of the bodies. The whole would be sold to system operators as part of a package deal which included the design, supply and installation of the overhead electrical equipment.<ref name="Lumb48"/> Between October 1921 and September 1926, Clough, Smith sold 63 solid-tyred trolley omnibuses. Most went to various [[Municipal corporation|corporations]] in [[Yorkshire]], UK, but some were exported to [[Bloemfontein]], South Africa and [[Georgetown, Guyana]]<ref name="Lumb48"/>
In 1925, Straker-Squire went into voluntary liquidation and subsequently into receivership. By this time [[Karrier]] had produced the UK's first three-axle passenger vehicle aided by developments in pneumatic tyres<ref>{{cite book|last=Lumb|first=Geoff|title=British Trolleybuses: 1911–1972|publisher=[[Ian Allan Publishing]]|date=1995|page=81|isbn=0711023476}}</ref> and Clough-Smith themselves had moved to pneumatic-tyred production in November 1926 with a new ''LL'' (for low-loading) model. The company subsequently entered into an arrangement with Karrier to produce the ''Karrier-Clough trolley omnibus'' which Clough would market.<ref name="Lumb48"/> Karrier allocated the No. E6, to this model. The contract with Karrier ended in 1932, but Clough, Smith continued as a manufacturer and supplier of associated electrical equipment and was still active in the field in 1968–9, when the company removed redundant equipment at [[Reading, Berkshire]].<ref name="L49">{{cite book|last=Lumb|first=Geoff|title=British Trolleybuses: 1911–1972|publisher=[[Ian Allan Publishing]]|date=1995|page=49|isbn=0711023476}}</ref>
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