Bus Company Service Vehicles Av Malcolm Batten

A wonderful tribute to an unheralded part of the nation's bus network with a variety of trainers and service vehicles.

With rare and previously unpublished images of the mainland national bus company fleets around Wessex.

How it all began - the story behind bus preservation and rallies. The origins of some of our most prominent UK transport museums. Photographs from the rally scene of the 1970s, mostly previously unpublished. Vehicles that have since been lost to the preservation...

There have always been small buses used by bus companies for a variety of reasons, but in the 1970s a number of companies employed van-derived minibuses on experimental services such as Dial-a Ride schemes. These were small-scale operations.From around...