Industry Heritage

In last week’s issue, Nick Larkin reported from the 2023 Fenland BusFest. This week, he continues his look at some of the vehicles on display As we discovered in last week’s issue, a sunny Sunday […]

The London Bus Museum is appealing for help to restore a classic bus which needs much work, reports Nick Larkin The London Bus Museum has launched a £350,000 appeal to restore a unique 1931 AEC […]

Operators from as far away as Yorkshire will be supporting the Fenland BusFest in Cambridgeshire on Sunday 21 May. There’ll be free classic bus rides all day from Whittlesey Market Place to Peterborough, Yaxley, March, […]

The events season kicked off in style in the West Midlands, reports Nick Larkin Double-deckers from the 2000s back to the 1930s carried passengers during Transport Museum Wythall’s season-opening running days. The events, on Easter […]

Arriva Southern Counties is paying tribute to its heritage with vehicles in historic liveries. The latest is a 2011 Optare Solo, now in the Maidstone & District (M&D) guise current from deregulation to 1997. The […]

Nick Larkin reports on a number of recent heritage repaints from opposite ends of the country A bus livery once a familiar sight in Aberdeen has returned as part of celebrations marking 125 years of […]

Stagecoach co-founder Sir Brian Souter says he hopes his new partnership with a Glasgow museum will inspire young visitors to one day join the bus industry. He has loaned a unique and newly preserved 2013 […]

<strong>Nick Larkin reports on a bus he believes may be the oldest still in regular service in the UK…unless you know different?</strong> Confidence of Leicester has been operating its AEC Routemaster since 1985 – and […]

Attending its first event since the late 1980s at the Browns Blue to Midland Red event in March (see last week’s Industry Heritage) was this beautifully restored 1962 Weymann-bodied Leyland PD2/37, new to Halifax. The […]

A former member of the Stagecoach heritage fleet has found a secure new home, reports Nick Larkin A 1929 Leyland Titan TD1 double-decker sold after more than 90 years with Southdown and successor Stagecoach makes […]