Rear-engined Blackpool buses through the ages line up for Blackpool 100. From left to right are: a new to London Transport ECW Leyland Olympian open-top from 1987; 1983 Leyland Atlantean with East Lancs bodywork A362 HHG; ADL E40D new last year and sporting the latest Blackpool Transport Palladium guise; Optare Excel T935 EAN, new to Reading Buses in 1999, and; Marshall-bodied AEC Swift PFR 554H. DANIEL ATKINSON