History

Almost 20 buses gathered in the city to mark 50 years of the PTE and 40 years since the founding of the transport museum, reports Nick Larkin The largest ever parade of preserved buses through […]

Bus driver Jamie Vendy is celebrating completing the transformation of his preserved Scania L94, new to First in 1999, into a fascinating might-have-been. The Wright-bodied bus was new to First Eastern Counties in Willow Leaf […]

AEC buses and coaches were given pride of place at the London Bus Museum’s Transportfest, with operators supplying vehicles from both their historic and modern fleets. AECs came from Ensign, the London Bus Company and […]

A brace of rare tri-axle Dennis Dragons is still being operated by Bedfordshire-based Landmark Coaches – and definitely have their followers. The buses are from a batch of 20 Dragons new to Stagecoach Kenya between […]

Major restoration of one of two surviving London-specification AEC RT-type buses new to a North West municipal is nearing completion at Ensignbus, and a well-known Routemaster is for sale.

A 1957 Bedford SBG owned by Worth’s of Enstone from new has been unearthed after many years in storage.

Nick Larkin reports on the fleet of a well-known heritage operator that’s now up for sale The collapse of a well-known Yorkshire-based heritage operator has resulted in an important collection of 15 historic buses coming […]

A hundred years of motorbuses in Ipswich by Eastern Counties and its predecessors are being celebrated with a special event. Ipswich Transport Museum is inviting operators and owners of vehicles to its Big Red Bus […]

Nick Larkin has been talking to a heritage operator in North Wales that wants to refine its fleet of Routemasters A fast-expanding North Wales heritage operator is adding to his fleet of classic Routemasters, but […]