Buses Annual 1964

Edited by R.A. Smith

ISBN N/A- 185mm x 245mm - 96 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Monochrome

1. Birth of a bus (AEC Renown) 2. Transport in Colombo as I knew it 3. Leylands since 1945 4. British trolleybus systems - the rise and fall of the silent service 5. Keeping the wheels turning - some bys maintenance and overhaul problems 6. The evolution of the bus ticket 7. Old trolleys never die/1 (removal of the London trolleybus overhead) 8. The mail-bus service of north-west Scotland 9. Worldmaster master of the world (Leyland buses abroad) 10. 'T' time (London's AEC 10T10 T class) 11. Old trolleys never die/2 (London trolleybuses being scrapped) 12. Brighton rallies improve the breed

KRE

Published in 1963 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1965

Edited by R.A. Smith

ISBN N/A- 185mm x 245mm - 94 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Monochrome with two colour plates

1. Public transport in the city of Los Angeles 2. Horse buses in London 3. In service in Singapore City 4. The Daimler story 5. 'Bathing vans, showboats and kipper boxes' (Leeds City Tramways) 6. Through the licensing maze (history of UK bus licensing) 7. Keeping the old 'uns (preserving buses) 8. The Whither the bus? (future bus designs) 9. Continental ticket practice

KRE

Published in 1964 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1966

Edited by R.A. Smith

ISBN N/A- 185mm x 245mm - 88 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Monochrome

1. An omnibus landmark (story of the AEC K Type) 2. Whither the bus (bus service development) 3. Lanarkshire - county of contrasts 4. Pre-war Regents and Regals 5. 'Twixt city and airport (airport bus links) 6. Buses in Budapest 7. No surrender to the Frenchies (story of the London Road Car Company) 8. The Metro motorbuses (bus services of the Metropolitan Railway)

AAP

Published in 1965 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1967

Edited by R.A. Smith

ISBN N/A - 185mm x 245mm - 96 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Monochrome

1. The greatest tour of all (the London buses tour of North America in 1952) 2. Hay-day for a Guy 3. (use of buses following withdrawal from PSV service) Co-ordination (road and rail services co-operation) 4. The ramblings of an enthusiast (memories, observations and notes of a bus enthusiast) 5. Lancashire Scottish express services 6. "Nulli secundus" (the story of the AEC/LGOC NS class bus) 7. The postal buses of Switzerland 8. The Leyland story 1926-42 9. The second deck (double-deck buses in France, Spain and Germany)

PDH

Published in 1966 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1968

Edited by R.A. Smith

ISBN N/A- 185mm x 245mm - 96 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Monochrome

1. Bus service in the garden isle (Southern Vectis) 2. Post-war AEC (Regents and Regals) 3. Which? (choosing the right vehicle for the job) 4. Tailoring bus service to public needs 5. A coincidence in Kent (Kent operators) 6. Take the number 11 (history of the London route) 7. Buses and the Post Office 8. Stagers of Suffolk 9. Winter sunshine (buses in the Canary Islands)

KRE

Published in 1967 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1969

Edited by G.W. Watts

ISBN N/A - 185mm x 245mm - 96 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Monochrome

1. The tale of a tiger (Leyland Tiger coaches) 2. The AEC story 3. Venture of Consett 4. Some aspects of coach design since 1945 5. South from Lisbon (buses in Portugal) 6. Fresh air on top (open top buses) 7. Buses in the valleys (buses in South Wales) 8. Short Type Long (LT STL type)

PDH

Published in 1968 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1970

Edited by G.W. Watts

ISBN N/A - 185mm x 245mm - 96 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Monochrome

1. Merlin's Wand (AEC Merlin in LT service) 2. A nostalgic look at North Norfolk (mainly coaches) 3. Hybrids in Scotland (new bodies on old chassis) 4. Excursions and tours from Doncaster 5. Massey-bodied Municipalities (Massey-bodied buses in Municipal fleets) 6. The omnibus proprietor (Hedingham & District Omnibuses) 7. The early years of London's tunnel buses 8. Trolleys at Walsall 9. AEC's last double-deckers

PDH

Published in 1969 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1971

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN N/A - 185mm x 245mm - 96 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Monochrome

1. Company single-deckers of the thirties (standardisation of buses) 2. Terminus for number ten (Wolverhampton trolleybus no. 10, DA 9010) 3. The first London wides (LT RTW class) 4. Why by-pass Exeter? (buses in Exeter) 5. Paisley in the sixties 6. "Bring an overnight case with you..." (Wallace Arnold) 7. South Wales and Bristol (Bristol buses in South Wales) 8. National United (Eastern National bus preservation) 9. Variety at Manchester

PDH

Published in 1970 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1972

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-0213-4 - 185mm x 245mm - 132 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Coach services in the 1930s 2. London buses in new colours (London buses with new operators) 3. L'autobus (French buses) 4. Independent strength/1 (Bishop Auckland) 5. Into the 70s at Cardiff 6. Independent strength/2 (Doncaster) 7. Red, blue and green (buses and trams of Ireland) 8. Leyland lineage (preserved Leylands) 9. Trolleybus renaissance (Bradford) 10. Symbol of disorder (buses destroyed during the troubles in Ulster) 11. Buses in the Thames Valley 12. The colourful north (of England) 13. Rural Wales 14. All change in some conurbations? (creation of PTAs and changes as a result of the Transport Act 1968) 15. Selnec pictorial 16. Merseyside pictorial 17. West Midlands pictorial 18. Take-over! (Scottish Bus Group acquisitions since 1961) 19. Much ado in Devon (recovery of a London General LT class bus from a Devon garden) 20. Show business (London Commercial Motor Show since 1941) 21. Advertising and the motor bus 22. Reshaping a network (new single-deckers in London) 23. An Alexanders assortment (Alexander-bodied buses) 24. Newcastle's blue buses (Newcastle Corporation)

PDH

Published in 1971 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1973

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-0373-4 - 185mm x 245mm - 132 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Thornycrofts in the Thame valley 2. Municipal muster/1 (East Anglia) 3. Highland holiday (Scottish highlands) 4. Pre-war panorama 5. Under new colours (Re-organisation in South Wales) 6. Have they fixed the where and when (pre-war Cornwall) 7. Island buses (Skye, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Barry Island, Walney Island and isle of Bute) 8. Daimlers on their home ground (the Midlands) 9. Seats on top in several languages (double deck buses around the world) 10. Scottish fleet names and colours 11. London Country oddities 12. The new invasion from Europe (European buses) 13. Museum pieces/1 The Castleruddery Musuem 14. Variety in standardisation - London STL class 15. Municipal muster/2 (NE England) 16. Box Brownie to yesterday (Box Brownie bus pics) 17. Nell Gwynne, forerunners, friends and followers (buses in Herefordshire) 18. The decline and fall of the trolleybus 19. Glimpses of richness in the Potteries (Potteries Motor Traction) 20. Museum pieces/2 (Edinburgh Transport Museum) 21. Colourful years in London 1905-16

PDH

Published in 1972 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1974

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-1467-6 - 185mm x 245mm - 132 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. The roaring twenties (buses in the 1920s) 2. Peaceful demonstrations (demonstrator buses) 3. Over the ups and in the downs (buses over the Pennines) 4. Contrasts in the Austrian Alps 5. Preservation in progress (buses preservation movements) 6. Suffolk independence (buses in Norfolk) 7. The post-war explosion (South East developments) 8. Second hand (buses acquired second-hand by larger companies) 9. Some glimpses of buses on the Isle of Man 10. Pre-war postscript 11. West Country matters 12. Covered wagons (all-over adverts) 13. I was a teenage bus-spotter (Nostalgic look at bus spotting as a youth) 14. Leeds observed 15. London Transport and standardisation 16. In between (midi-buses) 17. Bus driver of the year 18. Buses and birds (buses and girls) 19. Coventry camera 20. Seek and you will find (bus service trends in the 1070s)

PDH

Published in 1973 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1975

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-0546-X - 185mm x 245mm - 132 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Hung, drawn and quartered (the break up of North Western as a result of the 1968 Road Transport act) 2. A North Western album 3. Second career buses (buses used by mobile play-groups) 4. Rear today - where tomorrow? (where to put the engine) 5. Independent Lincs (independent operators in Lincolnshire) 6. Cyprus - island of paradise 7. The last outpost of the colourful bus (Glasgow) 8. Home made by Midland Red BMMO bus building) 9. The law steps in (bus operations in the 1930s) 10. National assembly (building a Leyland National) 11. Five Welsh independents 12. Nottingham recalled (buses and trolleybuses) 13. Channel Islanders (Jersey and Guernsey) 14. Where cider apples grow (Somerset in the 1930s) 15. An SMT collection (Scottish Motor Traction) 16. The King is dead (King Alfred buses) 17. In memory of the trolleybus 18. Vectis camera (Southern Vectis) 19. Northern's; own (Northern General Transport Company) 20. Southern scrapbook 21. a debt of gratitude (London Transport buses in Staines in the 1930s/40s)

PDH

Published in 1974 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1976

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-0651-2 - 185mm x 245mm - 133 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Second World War 2. One day in 1973 (from Litchfield to Nottingham) 3. Thoroughbred top ten (10 editor's top ten buses) 4. Devon in general (Devon General) 5. Bucks, Beeches and Bodgers (Buckinghamshire in the 1920s) 6. Variety in Carmarthen 7. An inheritance of problems (the fleet inherited by London Country in 1970) 8. Coastal rise and fall (Coastal Bus Service Limited of Portrush) 9. Twenty years of Scottish bus buying 10. Dream days (Kingston upon Hull) 11. East Yorkshire memories 12. Trolleybuses and taverns (connections between the two) 13. Colourful restorations (preserved buses) 14. Looking back at independence (Provincial) 15. All change in Singapore 16. North Eastern Miscellany  17. Monstrous masses of shivering tin (the Edinburgh Titan story) 18. East Lancs in North Lancs 19. Bus operations in Pembrokeshire

PDH

Published in 1975 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1977

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-0722-5 - 185mm x 245mm - 131 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Individuality in the Midlands (distinctive characteristics of operators and their buses) 2. Coachwork by Willowbrook 3. A North Wales transect 4. Look in Leicester 5. Parisiennes in exile (Paris bus preserved in the UK) 6. Lower Mosley Street Manchester 7. Municipalities on the reef (Municipal bus operations in South Africa) 8. A day in Durham city 9. London between the wars 10. Changes on Merseyside 11. Failte Cill Maintain (CIE buses and routes in County Wicklow) 12. Two notable anniversaries (1976 Leyland 80 years/Scottish Bus Group 70 years) 13. Second-hand seventies (buses passing between NBC companies) 14. White elephants? (Unusual coaches in NBC white) 15. Somewhere over the rainbow (questions of livery) 16. Transport from Tollesbury 17. Preserved trolleybuses 18. Kent's buses and the County Council 19. Study in Black & White (Black & White Motorways) 20. Variety in Doncaster 21. Number 55 (buses with fleet number 55) 22. Made in Scotland (Scottish bus manufacturers)

PDH

Published in 1976 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1978

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-0814-0 - 185mm x 245mm - 129 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. What might have been (London Transport's vehicle successes and failures) 2. Municipal Yorkshire 3. Toys to some... treasures to others (model and toy buses) 4. Distinctly off (experimental buses that never went into production) 5. A camera in Ceredigion (Welsh buses) 6. From tramcars to tramcard (Glasgow Corporation) 7. Sold to Barton Transport (second-hand buses of Barton Transport) 8. Western National and the NBC 9. A personal selection (picture collection) 10. Servicing the chalk massif (central southern England) 11. Ebbing and flowing (battery electric PSVs) 12. A first English summer (Blackpool) 13. Bus shape - Bristol fashion (Bristol Tramways & Carriage Company) 14. East coast independence (NE England independents) 15. Survival of the fittest (the continuing success of the double deck bus) 16. Lakes, tarns and mountain goats (Cumbria) 17. Serving the Eastern Counties 18. Tales of between two cities (memorable journeys at home and abroad) 19. The top(less) ten (open-top buses) 20. Chiefly sunny Sussex 21. Some Derbyshire memories

PDH

Published in 1977 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1979

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-0862-0 - 185mm x 245mm - 129 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Journeys to work (workers' specials) 2. A commanding lead (coach design) 3. Lincs with the past (Lincolnshire Road Car Limited) 4. Curiouser and curiouser/1 (strange bus photos) 5. Scarborough seaside special 6. Plaxton buses 7. Warwickshire school buses 8. West side story (Western SMT) 9. Second-hand trolleybuses 10. Teme work (buses in the Teme valley) 11. Curiouser and curiouser/2 (strange bus photos) 12. Beside the seadside, beside the sea (buses at the seaside) 13. Somerset scenes 14. it's nearly 37 years (Irish transport) 15. The allure of the half-cab 16. The Morris Eight 17. Door-to-door service (bus services remembered) 18. Curiouser and curiouser/3 (strange bus photos) 19. Missing Municipalities (Municipal fleets that have ceased trading) 20. Humberside before the Bridge 21. Curiouser and curiouser/4 (strange bus photos) 22. East Anglian contrasts 23. Interchange (history of London bus co-ordination) 24. Like the back of a bus (photos of bus rears) 25. Paisley patterns (Paisley buses) 26. The European bus: myth or reality? (European bus design)

PDH

Published in 1978 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1980

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-0934-1 - 185mm x 245mm - 129 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Adventurers on the Great North Road (coach travel between England and Scotland) 2. Epsom Assaults (Derby day and open top buses) 3. Tellus about Telford 4. Upstairs, downstairs 5. Non-standard designs (non-standard Leyland Nationals) 6. Wish you were here!/1 (bus postcards) 7. Red wine, yellow trams (Portugal) 8. Looking back at Tracky (Yorkshire Traction) 9. Developments and determination (Ulsterbus) 10. Poles apart (the London trolleybus conversion programme) 11. Roadliners in retrospect 12. Six wheels come full circle (Bedford VAL) 13. And then there were 49 (the last 49 local authority fleets) 14. Before Selnec 15. I was there (interesting transport events) 16. Wish you were here!/2 (bus postcards) 17 Weather permitting (buses in bad weather) 18. Harrington's Cavalier approach 19. The dawn of long-distance coaching 20. Wish you were here!/3 (bus postcards) 21. Odd bods (unusual coach bodies of the 1960s) 22. Driving down under (Australia) 23. Off to the seaside (coaches that carried Londoners to the Essex seaside) 24. Twixt Tyne and Wear 25. A day at Heathrow 26. The standardised seventies (1970s retrospective)

PDH

Published in 1979 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1981

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-1047-1 - 185mm x 245mm - 129 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. An independent line (South Yorkshire PTE) 2. From Cambria to Cumbria 3. New wine in old bottles (current buses wearing old liveries) 4. Bullseye off target? (London Transport's problems with 'off the peg' buses) 5.Northumbrian independence 6. Vodka on the rocks (the 1979 Vintage Transport Association holiday tour of Devon) 7. Stealing that extra bow (the Commercial Motor Show in the 1970s) 8. South Wales in the sixties 9. Woollen district (Yorkshire Woollen) 10. Towing/1 (recovery vehicles) 11. Aberdeen revisited 12. South of the Midlands (independent operators in the south Midlands) 13. Community spirit (rural bus services) 14. Towing/2 (recovery vehicles) 15. End of the line (former BET fleets) 16. One thousand and one... or more (Brazil's buses) 17. Blissful dreams of long ago (memories of Bournemouth trolleybuses and Leeds and Sheffield trams) 18. Mr. Smith's Scotland 19. The continuous passing scene (Plaxton Panorama) 20. Towing/3 (recovery vehicles) 21. A costly mistake? (rear-engined single deck buses) 22. Night out (buses at night)

PDH

Published in 1980 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1982

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-1138-8 - 185mm x 245mm - 129 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. The end of an era (towards the end of front-engined double deck buses) 2. Team work (football team coaches) 3. Staffs - now and then (Staffordshire independents) 4. Cleveland in transit (two municipal fleets in north east England) 5. Moving in predestinate grooves (trams in the British Isles, Europe and United States) 6. SOS for Trent (Midland Red-built SOS vehicles in the 1920s and '30s Trent fleet) 7. Malta's unique bus fleet 8. Recovery route (London Transport's recovery post WWII) 9. Dead leaves from old diaries (trolleybuses in Britain and Spain) 10. Before the bustle (front-engined double-deckers in East Anglia) 11. Sitting back comfortably (post-1950 coach design) 12. Independent West Wales (Western Welsh independents) 13. Topless in Pompey (topless buses in Portsmouth) 14. Cycling is easier (Irish bus buying) 15. Broader horizons (photographic tips) 16. Nothing in writing! (safeguarding the future of preserved buses) 17. Puzzle corner (brain-teasers for younger readers) 18. Channel Island thistles (Albions in Jersey and Guernsey) 19. Ribble coaches (including Standerwick and Scout) 20. Bristols in their home town 21. Land Cruises from Kirkintilloch (Lawson's Motor Services) 22. The red rose finally withers (Lancashire United)

PDH

Published in 1981 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1983

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-1231-8 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Monochrome

1. Where are we now (comparison with 1969) 2. Buses from above (photography), 3. All shapes and sizes (bus shelters) 4. City standards (standard vehicles of four of Britain's cities in '51, '61, '71 and '81) 5. Holiday harvest (Holiday resort pics. from 1929-37) 6. Birmingham sessions: impressions and digressions 7. Bring back Birch (Birch Bros.) 8. Signs of the times (Timetable displays) 9. Not like it used to be (LCBS since 1970) 10. Contemporary Crosville 11. On the greyhound track (America's Greyhound Lines since 1954) 12. Welsh memories (South Wales municipalities in the 50s and 60s) 13. Buses from Bretherton (small operator in Lancashire) 14. Travel by Sodbury Queen (Gloucestershire coach operator) 15. Gone for scrap (Yorkshire scrap-yard pics) 16. Titan tattoo (Southdown) 17. United variety 18. Varnished bodies (Beadle, Brush, Pickering and Saunders) 19. Changes in Ipswich 20. Bigger and better (Scottish box camera pics enlarged) 21. A man for all seasons (Midland Red D9s) 22. Invasion from abroad (buses built in Europe on UK roads)

CW

Published in 1982 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1984

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-1303-9 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Excursions (bygone photographic trips) 2. A meditative meal (trolleybuses in France) 3. Driver under instruction (pics of tuition buses) 4. In foreign climes (non-UK buses) 5. Products of optimism (the seven PTEs) 6. South-western selection (bygone buses from Scotland's Clyde coast and south-west) 7. Pages from a designer's sketchbook (Ray Stenning and future coach design) 8. The Atkins approach (half a century of bus photography) 9. Fifty glorious years (London Transport's golden jubilee) 10. Oiling the West Midlands wheels (maintenance and overhaul facilities) 11. National South Wales (NBC) 12. Heads and tails (front and rear in the same pic) 13. The road from Arthur's seat (Edinburgh Corporation coaches) 14. Topless in all weathers (Southend Corporation open-toppers) 15. Country buses (rural operations) 16. Irish journeys (Ireland 1956 and 1965) 17. The Delaine 18. A day in the life (Eastbourne buses on July 11 1980) 19. Durham delights (the city's past operators)

CW

Published in 1983 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1985

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-1404-3 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Fetters rent in twain (the post-1980 scene) 2. Memories of Victoria (the coach station 1934-1958) 3. A transport career in retrospect (working in Ulster) 4. Sorties into Scotland 5. Double deck bodies: and architectural guide (tongue in cheek application of architectural classification to bus bodies) 6. Taken over/1 (small operators taken over by Municipal and PTE operators) 7. Southdown at seventy 8. Independent colour 9. The Saro story (Saunders-Roe) 9. North west frontiers (life after NWRCC) 10. Skirt (comparison pics) 11. Taken over/2 (as above) 12. What a water bus (Lincoln Transport's entry in the 1982 Lincoln Water Festival) 13. What you can and can't do with Pass Cumbria (Mid-Wales) 14. All types (driving with FF 20536) 15. Cheltenham departures (mass departures from Cheltenham coach station) 16. Taken over/3 (as above) 17. Off the rails (Ecuador's buses) 18. Omnibologitis (catching the 'bus enthusiast' bug) 19. Independence from monopoly (new faces in London)

CW

Published in 1984 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1986

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-1507-4 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Standing on its own feet (Hastings) 2. Independents then and now 3. Learning to love the French standards (life after open-rear platform buses in France) 4. The south-west corner (Dumfries and Galloway) 5. Bournemouth bonanza 6. VRT variety (Bristol VRT) 7. Hell, via Hull and Halifax (a journey without a timetable) 8. Best in the long run (chassis and bodies that enjoyed lengthy production runs) 9. Changes in the capital (London Transport's constantly changing fortunes) 10. Testing times (London Transport's route 170 vehicle evaluation tests) 11. Desert island pics (10 to take away) 12. Garage gallery (buses and garages) 13. Gloucester blue (changing image of Gloucester's local buses) 14. North eastern municipals 15. A bicycle named Hero (buses in India) 15. East Midlands contrasts 16. Jersey today 17. 70 years in Hampshire and Dorset (Bournemouth & District to Hampshire Bus, via Hants & Dorset) 18. A turntable, not a timetable (1930a cameo) 19. Sightseeing round London (sightseeing operators in London) 20. In love with Lions (Leyland Lion) 21. Nottingham in the 1980s 22. BA revisited (1960s in Bishop Auckland) 23. RT quest 24. Corporate identity (National liveries after white) 25. Marshall Arts (Marshall bodywork) 26.Contiunuing its extraneousness (the looks of the Irish bus)

CW

Published in 1985 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1987

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-1633-X - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. A year in the life of a breathless bus photographer (Peter Rowlands' pics) 2. Sputh Wales in the 1950s 3. Small underfloor (Bristol SU) 4. Now and then (independent operator changes) 5. From the cradle to the grave (history of two 1950s coaches) 6. Green wine, tawny wine and transport of many colours (transport in Porto) 7. The D10 (Midland Red D10) 8. Scottish shake up (1985 re-organisation of the Scottish Bus Group) 9. Manchester's Museum (Manchester's transport museum) 10. Manx for the memory (Isle of Man) 11. The Buses Annual crossword 12. A day in north Devon 13. Ahead of its time (Guy Wulfrunian) 14. Buses in Beds. (Bedfordshire) 15. Buses Annual competition 16. British buses in Hong Kong 17. Countdown (buses with fleet numbers 5 to 1)  18. Deckers on the Cambrian coast (double-decks in rural west Wales) 19. Fit for the Chase (operators around Cannock Chase) 20. London in the 1940s (1947-48) 21. Advertising standards (Early bus and coach advertising) 22. Not just a four letter words (Ford as a bus maker) 23. SHMD (SHMD in the 1950s and '60s, until it was absorbed by SELNEC) 24. Long beach (an antipodean excursion) 25. Stagecoach (the Scottish independent in the in the 1980s) 26. Eastern National lightweights

CW

Published in 1986 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Annual 1988

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-1696-8 - 185mm x 245mm - 126 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. What did you do on D-day, Daddy? (26th October 1986 - De-regulation day) 2. Variety at Ipswich 3. Confessions of an aging enthusiast (Gavin Booth) 4. Looking back (40 years as an enthusiast employed in the bus industry) 5. Routemasters in Scotland 6. End of an era (history of Bedford buses and coaches) 7. Bristol's Lowdekka 8. Tender stakes tame the wayward child (tendering and London's bus services) 9. Down under (Australia) 10. The end of the road (buses in Yorkshire scrapyards) 11. The Super National programme (the development of non-standard Nationals) 12. After the Atlantean (the post-1986 successors to the Atlantean) 13. The Buses Annual 1988 quiz 14. Cornwall independents before de-regulation (mid 1980s) 15. Twixt Tyne and Wear (buses in north east England) 16. Topless buses 17. On hire to national (the growing number of operators with buses painted in National white) 18. The ones that got away (buses that should have been preserved) 19. Over and under (buses and bridges) 20. All change on the long island (developments in the Western Isles) 21. North Western 'deckers (old and new) 22. Channel Isle (Guernsey) 23. Scotland in winter (pictorial feature)

CW

Published in 1987 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 1989

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-1785-9 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Blunderbus (buses deemed as failures) 2. A look at Lincolnshire 3. Scots minis (Scottish Bus Group minibuses) 4. The longest hill (the climb to Old Coulsdon) 5. Distractions (changing fashions and the buses that went with them) 6. Amazingly excellent chassis (AEC Regent) 7. Buses past my door (Stewart Brown's recollections) 8. Bristol's last lightweight (Bristol LH) 9. Crosville in Wales 10. Winning at Wembley? (buses and coaches at Wembley Stadium) 11. 'You're interested in what?' (a transport enthusiast explains) 12. Second hand (buses that changed ownership) 13. Fort years ago (Photo's from 1949) 15. What might have been (ECW designs that were never built) 16. Citybus collection (Volvo Citybus) 17. Stateside snapshot (USA) 18. Sheffield survey 19. Buses of the garden isle (Isle of Wight) 20. Buses and churches (pics with both)  21. Numbers (the fascination with numbers) 22. Peak period (Peak District)

PDH

Published in 1988 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 1990

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-1866-9 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Single deck revival (new generation 11m single deck buses) 2. 'Back-to-front' buses in Bristol (Rear-engined Bristols) 3. Odd men out (coaches that only sold in mall numbers) 4. From charabanc to supercoach (coach design) 5. Operator influence on bus design 6. Dominant in the bus business (Duple Dominant) 7. These I have loved (Stephen Morris's driving recollections) 8. De-regulated Nottinghamshire 9. Variations on the Routemaster theme 10. Anglo-Scottish coaches (Scottish Bus group, Anglo-Scottish routes and coaches) 11. Close enough for jazz (die-cast buses) 12. New look in Northumbria 13. Merseyside liveries 14. Bus stations 15. Full front double-deckers

PDH

Published in 1989 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 1991

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-1926-6 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Forward-entrance double-deckers (front-engined) 2. Spoilsports? (recent decisions that disappoint enthusiasts) 3. the Maltese time-warp 4. The decline of the British bus 5. The world's best-selling double-decker (Leyland Olympian) 6. A decade of change at Alexander 7. Flying the flag (Ensignbus) 8. Focus on Bournemouth 9. Trolleybus twilight (the final trolleybus operators) 10. Passengers 11. Privately preserved 12. Capital coaches (Edinburgh's tourist buses and coaches) 13. Road-rail connections (bus/rail interchanges) 14. A decline in French standards (French Standard buses)

PDH

Published in 1990 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 1992

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-1992-4 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Multi-modal in Man (Isle of Man) 2. W is for War (Karrier/Sunbeam Type W trolleybus) 3. Looking back (1962) 4. Bristols in London 5. Chaos out of order? (20 years of change in the British bus business) 6. Vanishing body-builders 7. Brighton by bus 8. Widening horizons (there are fleets other than London Transport) 9. Country bus 10. Catalogues of disaster (bus manufacturers' publicity and unfulfilled expectations) 11. Potteries variety (Potteries Motor Traction) 12. Faversham in 1961 13. Eastern Counties 14. The Green Line riddle (changes in the Green Line network) 15. Reinventing the bus (development of the minibus)

PDH

Published in 1991 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 1993

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-2065-5 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. 1968: the end of the beginning? 2. Twixt Oxford and Cambridge (a journey between) 3. Manchester '92 4. Coats of many colours (Kelvin Central buses) 5. Postwar Dennis 'deckers 6. The rise and slow death of the mid-engined bus 7. Small is beautiful (small Bedfords) 8. Lasting impressions (buses and coaches that made a lasting impression) 9. Tracky backtrack (Yorkshire Traction)  10. Last bus (the final days of some East Anglian operators) 11. Caught in time (thoughts on the future) 12. Ulster mixture 13. Catching the buzz (Hong Kong) 14. Southwest summer 15. Built in Scotland

PDH

Published in 1992 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 1994

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-2154-6 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. The survivors (surviving 1953 Bristols) 2. Bridgemaster blunder 3. Body styles - a turn for the better 4. Old buses never die... 5. Flashback: 20 years ago 6. A life of Brian (Stagecoach) 7. The Spangles factor (London Country) 8. Looking at Lothian 9. Buses I might have bought (missed bus preservation opportunities) 10. Reflections (bus photographs) 11. Through the driver's eyes (bus driving as a career) 12. Channel crossing (Belgium and France) 13. Northern changes (Go-Ahead Northern) 14. Serving Sutherland (Sutherland Trading & Transport Company) 15. Kenyan Safari 16. Fresh new look (enclosed radiators) 17. Durham delights

PDH

Published in 1993 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 1995

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-2255-0 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Catching up (tale of a bus photographer) 2. The jewel in the crown (Recent London developments) 3. 'Way down west (Western National) 4. The final frontier (passenger transport executives) 5. Is there life after Carron House (Scottish Bus Group after privatisation) 6. Invasion of the importers (European chassis manufacturers) 7. Municipal miscellany 8. Seeing red in bath (former London buses in Bath) 9. False dawn (urban single deckers) 10. 95 in '95 (Sheffield route 95) 11. What's in a number? (cherished registrations) 12. Fond memories 13. Never too late (British Bus Preservation Group) 14. Past preservation (bus preservation in 1995) 15. Ten years ago

PDH

Published in 1994 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 1996

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-2351-4 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Ten years of style (Optare) 2. RE; reliable engineering (Bristol RE in Hartlepool) 3. Bright green Jersey 4. Comeback (Bristol VRT in Scotland) 5. National heritage (National Bus Company privatisation perspective) 6. Wider than the Y (Scottish Bus Group's vehicle policy) 7. It pays to advertise - sometimes (bus and coach advertising in the '60s) 8. Brits abroad (British double-deck buses in British Columbia) 9. Better by Barton (Barton Transport) 10. Pig-snout and her younger sisters (history of the French Chausson bus) 11. The disappearance of London Country 12. Thurgood of Ware 13.  South Wales safari 14. If this is Thursday (round the world looking at buses) 15. United we stand (Lancashire United)

PDH

Published in 1995 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 1997

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-2474-X - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Lowering standards (low-floor buses) 2. New Brighton trippers (Brighton day trips in the 1950s) 3. Bus driving 'ell (a five day bus tour) 4. Post-war Scottish Titans 5. Sunset on the Tyne (Newcastle buses) 6. The bus that didn't dare (privatisation) 7. Museum musings (bus preservation) 8. Sheffield showdown 9. Buses in Estonia 10. Municipal days at Southport 11. Crosville country 12. Advertising awareness (advertising on buses) 13. Support services (support vehicles) 14. Musselburgh Depot 15. Morecambe bay memories

PDH

Published in 1996 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 1998

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-2527-4 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. British bus- a rough ride 2. Nottingham lions 3. Highland holiday (Scotland 1975) 4. Brief revival (revived liveries post-1975 privatisation) 5. Transports of delight (double-deck bus evolution) 6. Lost soulmates  (old, established companies that have ceased trading since 1985) 7. Going, going, almost gone... (Disappearing vehicle types) 8. Bristol fashion (Bristols in service with local authority fleets) 9. North from Enfield (London Country North East) 10. Which way forward (strengths and weaknesses of public transport) 11. Joy ride (a holiday bus trip) 12. Twenty-year gap (Lincolnshire Road Car in the 1970s and the 1990s) 13. Some open-toppers I have known 14. When Duple was dominant 15. Schools (school transport) 16. Nottingham in the nineties 17. The other Highland (Highland Bus Service)

PDH

Published in 1997 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 1999

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-2594-0 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. The thistle comes full circle (First Bus) 2. Colchester collection 3. A red nose round up (Lancashire since de-regulation) 4. Leopards - a naturalists guide (Leyland Leopard) 5. Capital colour (new colours of London routes) 6. Goodbye to all that (Arriva) 7. 10/100 (buses with the number 100 in their registration) 8. Back from the brink - bodybuilders in the 1990s (bodybuilders in the 1980s) 9. The Leon line (Leon Motor Services) 10. Yellow buses (of Bournemouth) 11. Lewis legends (buses on the Isle of Lewis) 12. By slow stages to a service (recollections of a bus photographer) 13. Bucks buses 14. Indian interlude (India) 15. Glasgow's miles better

PDH

Published in 1998 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 2000

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-2673-4 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Of bays and bustles (rear-engined double-deck body design) 2. Shetland soujourns (the Shetland Isles in 1957 and 1964) 3. Goggle eyed/1 4. (buses on TV 1960s) Wilts & Dorset 5. Goggle eyed/2 (buses on TV 1970s) 6. Booming demand for second-hand buses 7. Double-deckers at the crossroads (low-floor buses) 8. Loss of local colour (Davies of Pencador) 9. A Lakeland tale for grown-ups (the lake District) 10. Trolibusszal mentem a tescoba... a trail through two cities (Budapest and San Francisco) 11. Five decades of bus photography 12. Twenty years in Enfield 13. Goggle eyed/3 (buses on TV 1980s) 14. All change in the West Midlands 15. Buses and bagpipes (Edinburgh) 16. Cleveland camera (Cleveland Transit) 17. Goggle eyed/4 (buses on TV 1990s) 18. London green (London Country Bus Services) 19. Odd singles (odd single-deck buses in Scotland)

PDH

Published in 1999 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 2001

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-2724-2 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Lucky breaks (taking bus photographs) 2. Gorgeous gas or just hot air? (alternative fuels) 3. A century of Manchester's buses 4. The end of SMT 5. Late developer (Leyland Atlantean) 6. Capital cascade (ex-London buses in service elsewhere) 7. The last years of MCW 8. Packing 'em in! (maximising seating capacity within legislative constraints) 9. Travels through Asia 10. Orkney overture 11. Forty years of touring (PSV Circle tours) 12. The yellow dog and the floating bridge (Southampton Corporation) 13. Turning the clock back (bus preservation) 14. Saver seventy-seven (Manchester 1977) 15. The twin-steer Bedford (Bedford VAL)

PDH

Published in 2000 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 2002

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-2804-4 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Lakeland Leopard (Ribble Manchester to Keswick service) 2. Madeira 3. Growing up in Croydon 4. The good Guys (Scottish Guys) 5. Change at Putney Bridge 6. All change in Glasgow 7. Have a nice day! (a transport day out) 8. North American miscellany 9. Twenty years of Stagecoach half-cabs 10. The Island's eighth wonder (Isle of Wight) 11. Over the sea to Sky 12. A look back at Buses (Stephen Morris muses about being editor of Buses Magazine) 13. This is the BBC... (The Bath Bus Company) 14. Heroes and villains (men of influence) 15. Leyland's Lynx 16. Paisley patterns (independent operators in Paisley) 17. Birmingham blues (Birmingham Corporation)

PDH

Published in 2001 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 2003

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-2894-4 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Sunderland's great innovator (Sunderland Corporation under the management of Norman Morton) 2. A day in Oxford 3. Yorkshire enterprise (Dalesman/Ward Motors Limited) 4. Arriva miscellany 5. From 1 to 1050 (Leyland Atlanteans on Merseyside) 6. Wonderful, wonderful (Copenhagen) 7. Single deck supremacy? (trends in single deck buses) 8. Buses in Brighton 9. Some are gone... and some remain (changes over the last 20 years) 10. London, Paris and Berlin 11. Scotland 1993 12. A classic revival (Cumbria Classic Coaches) 13. Continental coaches carrying cuties 14. Small islands, small buses (Scotland's western isles)

PDH

Published in 2002 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 2004

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-2938-5 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. What's in a name? (bus and coach manufacturers) 2. Rossendale miscellany 3. At the sharp end (reminiscences of a London Transport conductor) 4. Changing fortunes for European trolleybuses 5. The 20-plus club (vehicles that have completed over 20 years service) 6. The allure of the open-topper 7. Save the last Dart for me (today's candidates for preservation) 8. Double-deck renaissance 9.Backing a winner (Tellings-Golden Miller) 10. An absence of Atlanteans 11. (Newcastle) Round the bend (articulated buses) 12. McKindless variety 13. Taking the trolley (trolleybuses)

PDH

Published in 2003 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 2005

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-2997-0 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Double-deckers with six appeal (buses with tri-axles) 2. The interregnum (post NBC fleet liveries before corporate liveries took over) 3. When buses went to war (World War II bus operations) 4. Abroad thoughts from home (buses in Europe) 5. VR variety (the Bristol VR) 6. Ten more minutes (problems photographing buses) 7. When was the golden age of the bus? 8. Under the wires (trolleybuses) 9. Travel around a world heritage site (Telford) 10. The also-rans (new buses that didn't succeed) 11. High capacity 12. Words upon the fine art of bus photography 13. Twenty years of Optare 14. Home fixtures (transport for football fans visiting Rangers Football Club's Ibrox stadium)

PDH

Published in 2004 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 2006

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-3054-5 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Two Davids, three Johns and two Brians (Transbus International) 2. African AECs 3. No more fares please? (bus conductors) 4. One small step... (the first decade of low-floor buses in London) 5. I was responsible (reminiscences of Roy Marshall) 6. Changing times in Scotland 7. Ramblings on Ribble in the 'seventies 8. Gone but not forgotten (well known operators who have ceased trading) 9. The long goodbye (end of the Routemaster) 10. Saturday night Weaver (north east England at the end of the 1950s) 11. Airport transfers (operators and vehicles at Gatwick Airport) 12. The last Sunday bus to Potter Heigham (East Anglian bus operations) 13. Exposed in Edinburgh (Edinburgh's open top buses)

PDH

Published in 2005 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 2007

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-3116-9 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. The year of takeovers (the changing map of British bus ownership) 2. In search of missing gems (rare Leicestershire buses)  3. Advancing in a forward direction (do we learn lessons from the past?) 4. Park & Ride variety 5. Lies, damn lies... and digital (opportunities and temptations of the digital era) 6. All change in Colchester (the transition from Arriva Colchester to Network Colchester) 7. Interesting times (the British bus industry following de-regulation) 8. The Potsdam Dutchmen (memories of Benelux transport) 9. Highland fling (Highland Omnibuses) 10. Over the backbone of England (looking back at Ribble from a part-time drivers perspective)11. The AECs of Nottingham City Transport (1929-1977) 12. Shocks, surprises and the out-of-the-ordinary  (a trip down memory lane with Stuart Jones) 13.Change on Clydeside (the Clydeside fleet in the mid '90s)

RJL

Published in 2006 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 2008

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-30213-0 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Buses built in... where? (Swedish and German built in Poland or Turkey) 2. Route branding around Britain 3. Terminal delights (bus stations) 4. South-west 'seventies (1976) 5. Step change (from the Leyland National in the '70s to the low-floor single-deckers in the 1990s) 6. Barnsley in the 1950s 7. The Metrobus in the West Midlands 8. Of damsels and digressions (Robert E. Jowitt on 35 years of writing for books like this) 9. Vanishing independents (Leeds post de-regulation) 10. The melody lingers on (time-warp characteristics of the bus industry) 11. Desert island 'deckers (eight favourite 'dekkers) 12. The image problem (moving the image of buses up-market) 13. Ten years of low-floor 'deckers (developments in Bristol) 14. Glasgow's twenty-first century independents

RJL

Published in 2007 by Ian Allan
 

Buses Year Book 2009

Edited by Stewart J. Brown

ISBN 0-7110-3295-8 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Scania - Four decades in Great Britain 2. Greyhound in print 3. Turning back time (Scottish Vintage Bus Museum) 4. Riding on a Regent (AEC Regents in the north-east of England in the 1950s) 5. Hong Kong 10 Years On (post British period) 6. Rolling Stones (Buses at the Isle of Wight Rock Festival) 7. From White Ladies to Black Witches (60 years of the X43 connecting East Lancashire with Manchester) 8. From Poppy to Barbie (Midland Red West) 9. 'Sixties Yorkshire 10. The quest for capacity 11. Trolleybus encounters 12. A breath of fresh air (Open toppers) 13. Only a number (50 years of bus enthusiasm) 14. Backing the bus (local authorities and bus operators) 15. SBG survivors (Scottish Bus Group)

AAP

Published in 2008 by Ian Allan
 

Classic Bus Yearbook 1995

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-2354-9 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. The finale of Buses and Birds (Bird's scrap-yard) 2. Classic Bus alphabet/1 3. It wan't all doom and gloom (the WWII bus scene) 4. Second fiddle/1 (buses in an architectural context) 5. Classic Bus alphabet/2 6. Why the duchess had to kick the bucket (London Transport in the 1970s) 7. South Wales selection 8. Surprises round the corner (Fishwick's of Leyland) 9. Durham's trolleybuses 10. Sussex sundae 11. Classic Bus alphabet/3 12. The road from short trousers (Voyages of discovery in the 1950s) 13. Second fiddle/2 (buses in an architectural context) 14. Of trams and tears and matters as in mirrors (British-built buses in Portugal) 15. One lump or two (unintended boil-ups in Essex and London) 16. Holiday buses and coaches (Memories of West Country coach trips) 17. Classic Bus alphabet/4 18. Venturers to Vikings (Albion buses in post-war Scotland) 19. Second Fiddle/3  (buses in an architectural context)

PDH

Published in 1995 by Ian Allan
 

Classic Bus Yearbook 1996

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-2446-4 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. By STL to the Zoo 2. Classic Bus alphabet/1 3. PMT at its best 4. Classic wonderbus (Bristol Lodekka) 5. Scotland 1939 6. The decline and fall of the Leyland empire 7. When Duple was Dominant. but Plaxton was Supreme (Naming bus marques) 8. The ones that got away (a cautionary tale for would-be bus preservationists) 9. The primrose path (trolleybuses in Bournmouth) 10. Cover story/1 11. Classic Bus alphabet/2 12. Great Yarmouth to Plymouth 1951 (an epic journey) 13. Cover story/2 14. Bristols of Christchurch 15. Twilight shift (new uses for old buses) 16. The freedom factor (the Daimler Freeline) 17. Cover story/3 18. Coach to coast (with all seats numbered and reserved) (pre-war coaching) 19. Wartime in West Cumberland 20. Classic bus alphabet/3

PDH

Published in 1996 by Ian Allan
 

Classic Bus Yearbook 1997

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-2509-6 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Tenuous connections (bus operators' connecting services) 2. The numbers game/1 (quirky numbers and buses) 3. It made a million (Central SMT) 4. Classic wonderbus (Leyland Leopard) 5. Full frontal (misguided fully-frontal buses) 6. One that definitely got away (G.S. Cooper paintings) 7. The numbers game/2 8. Trolleybuses and bridges 9. Just start at 1 (fleet numbering) 10. Rixon's London (LT photos) 11. Momentous meeting (1931 in the development of the diesel engine) 12. Merseyside in the 1970s 13. The numbers game/3 14. Notes on motor buses 1921 15. Seventy years a busman (T.A. Dalton) 16. There may be trouble ahead (UK bus industry in the 1920s) 17. The numbers game/4 18. Pontypridd on a Sunday (and Accrington, Runcorn and and Saltcoats) 19. From Weymouth to Mansfield by Bristol (long-distance driving in the 1960s and 70s)

PDH

Published in 1997 by Ian Allan
 

Classic Bus Yearbook 1998

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-2584-3 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Victoria in the 1950s (Victoria coach station) 2. Checkpoint/1 (Crosville) 3. Two doors for Leeds (dual door buses in the '60s and '70s) 4. Classic wonderbus 5. Next stop please, driver (Bristol 1967-72) 6. The Worcester Agreement (an artist's painting) 7. South Wales companies 8. Mr. Little discovers the Titan (buying policies of a transport manager) 9. Greater Manchester's last classic (as inherited by SELNEC PTE) 10. Doing the right thing (RTs, RTLS and Fleetlines abroad) 11. Checkpoint/2 (Leyland Royal Tiger) 12. Before and after (Isle of Wight/WWII/Cornwall) 13. Just a handful (private operators in the London Transport area) 14. Q&A 15. Early small diesel buses (1930s) 16. I was there 17. Fotobus classic (monochrome classic pics) 18. CCC (Albion chassis codes) 19. Memories from a Southdown timetable (nearly 50 years ago) 20. Checkpoint/3 (Newcastle's trolleybuses) 21. living with T31 (preserving a 69-year old bus) 22. Checkpoint/4 (decimal bus fares) 23. Third time lucky (six BUT trolleybuses that became Britain's only third-hand trolleys) 24. Open Platform (are older buses automatically good and newer buses bad?)

PDH

Published in 1998 by Ian Allan
 

Classic Bus Yearbook 1999

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-2668-8 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Bus spotting by bike (Home Counties) 2. Checkpoint/1 (Maidstone & District) 3. Airport 71 (Heathrow) 4. Managing on the right lines (buses legacy of 'tram' managers) 5. Checkpoint/2 (Bristol LS) 6. Vintage '58 (London Transport) 7. Northern in general (Northern General) 8. Tale of the century (buses of the 20th Century) 9. 'Petrol' buses reign supreme (Derby post-trolleybuses) 10. Isle of Man buses and coaches on old picture postcards 11. I was there (launch of the Silent Rider) 12. Buses of Adversity (buses post-withdrawal) 13. Classic wonderbus 14. Connections (aircraft and bus building, Saunders and Saunders-Roe) 15. CCC (Bedford chassis codes) 16. From John Smith's album 17. Checkpoint/3 (Cardiff trolleybuses) 18. A further look at Birmingham's CVD6s 19. Highland in the far north (Caithness buses) 20. Checkpoint/4 (Premiere Travel) 21. Hundreds for the thousands (Clacton in summer) 22. Open platform (British Bus Preservation Group)

PDH

Published in 1999 by Ian Allan
 

Classic Bus Yearbook 2000

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-2749-8 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Bonny buses (buses of the mid-1950s) 2. Sixty years on (North Staffs. in the 1930s and '40s) 3. Checkpoint/1 (Ribble's Leyland PD3s) 4. Memories of Athol Street (LT garage in the late 1940s/early 1950s) 5. Checkpoint/2 (MacBraynes) 6. Switzerland's big bus company (Londag's former-UK double-deckers) 7. The way we were (bus and trolleybus advertising in the 1930s) 8. 1975 in Scotland 9. 'If only I'd...' (Enthusiast's recollections) 10. E class in Donegal (CIE Leopards) 11. Checkpoint/3 (Yorkshire's railway buses) 12. Good and faithful servants (Southends 33ft Fleetlines) 13. I was there (Northern General's attempt to improve on the Leyland National) 14. Silent '60s to sonorous '70s (trolleybus systems towards their end) 15. CCC (Bristol chassis codes) 16. Transport of delight (Eynon of Trimsaran in the 1970s) 17. Type approval: Bedford SB 18. Checkpoint/4 (Southampton Corporation Transport) 19. T.H. Barton - genius or eccentric? (achievements of a famous engineer and busman) 20. Classic wonderbus (AEC Reliance) 21. Heaver (west-country coachbuilder)

PDH

Published in 2000 by Ian Allan
 

Classic Bus Yearbook 2001

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-2827-3 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. The Moulsecoomb story (Southdown garage) 2. Day trip to Bradford 3. Checkpoint/1 (Glasgow Corporation's Daimlers) 4. The keynote is elegance (Middlesex-based coachbuilder Whitson) 5. Classic wonderbus 6. The quest for Aluguer 7. Portfolio/1 (Robin Hannay's pics) 8. Portfolion/2 (Iain MacGregor's pics) 9. Sudbury scene in the 1960s 10. Checkpoint/2 (Thames Trader) 11. Spring in Park Lane (1958) 12. Checkpoint/3 (Walsall Corporation) 13. Four-bay watch (four and five bay double-deckers) 14. Todmorden's Indian summer (final days of Todmorden JOC) 15. 47 varieties (Hants. & Dorset's route 47) 16. Checkpoint/4 (Ribble) 17. Maenclochog - an elegy (Welsh village in 1972) 17. Summer wine in the 1960s (Yorkshire's Holme Valley) 18. Roger and out (nostalgia from South Wales and Kent)

PDH

Published in 2001 by Ian Allan
 

Classic Bus Yearbook 2002

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-2851-6 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Pipedream....? (Tilling Group's post-war fleet) 2. Classic wonderbus 3. Crosville memorabilia 4. Checkpoint/1 (a Scottish independent) 5. Pre-selector Arab IIIs 6. A safe BET (pre-NBC liveries of the BET Group) 7. 1982. 8. AECs that had Leyland hearts (Leyland's 1930s combustion system in AEC 8.8-litre engine) 9. Letter from London (London vehicle type letters that have been used more than once) 10. Buses and belfries (architecture and buses) 11. Checkpoint/2 (Cardiff Corporation) 12. Coachwork by Strachans 13. Checkpoint/3 (Dennis's Lodekka) 14. Like the back end of a bus (rear end views) 15. Leaving Lancashire (editor's last days at the Leyland Journal) 16. Letters from London (Sunbeam) 17. GB's ABC of CB (CB since 1992) 18. Checkpoint/4 (Plaxton) 19. Letters from London (Guys) 20. Roger and out (journeys to the north)

PDH

Published in 2002 by Ian Allan
 

Classic Bus Yearbook 2003

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-2939-3 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. The Brighton Road (Brighton's buses) 2. Checkpoint/1 (Exeter Corporation) 3. Three in a row/1 (buses with 000 and 111 registrations) 4. The game of the name (chassis names) 5. Classic wonderbus 6. Three in a row/2 (buses with 222 and 333 registrations) 7. We are not worthy (the Routemaster) 8. The first Fleetlines 9. On other pages (Brighton, Bristol REs, CIE's M class Leopards, South Wales, Economic and Trent 10. Checkpoint/2 (CIE's M class Leopards) 11. Coachbuilding in Bridlington 12. A 40-year love affair (Edinburgh Corporation and Daimlers) 13. Three in a row/3 (444 and 555 registrations) 14. The Economic bus service 15. Checkpoint/3 (Eastern Coach Works) 16. The last thing on my mind (South Wales buses) 17. Three in a row/4 (666 and 777 registrations) 18. Titans take over (West Yorkshire's Leyland TD1s and TD2s) 19. Checkpoint/4 (Trent) 20. The way things were (pics from 30 years ago) 21. Three in a row/5 (888 and 999 registrations) 22. Roger and out (1960s Sheffield)

PDH

Published in 2003 by Ian Allan
 

Classic Bus Yearbook 2005

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-3055-3 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Limited stop to Greenfield (1969 municipal bus trip from Manchester) 2. Checkpoint/1 (AEC CVG6s) 3. One is mine and all alone, and ever more will be so(1) (notable single number registrations 1 and 2) 4. Decline and fall (Wolverhampton's trolleybuses) 5. Against all odds (London's Routemaster coaches 30 years after leaving the Green Line services they were built for) 6. Old buses, 1980 style (new bus deliveries in 1980) 7. Exchange & Market (NCME-bodied Leyland of the South Shields fleet in 1942 that was swapped for a Guy of Middlebrough's fleet, and the bodies swapped over) 8. Checkpoint/2 (Llandudno UDC) 9. Paramount Panorama (coaches of those names) 10. An RT farewell (RT buses on normal service in London in 2004) 11. Classic wonderbus (Alexander M Type) 12. bodywork by BH&D (Brighton Hove and District-built bodywork, especially open-toppers) 13. Edinburgh oddments (non-standard Edinburgh buses) 14. Checkpoint/3 (Hull's trolleybuses) 15. Short-bonnet halfcab buses (maximising pre-ward passenger numbers) 16. Checkpoint/4 (NBC's proposed busway out of Marylebone) 16. One is mine and all alone, and ever more will be so(2) (notable single number registrations 3-9) 17. Roger and out (bus-driving ambitions)

SDB

Published in 2005 by Ian Allan
 

Classic Bus Yearbook 2006

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-2996-2 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. A day at the races (Epsom 1968-85) 2. Walsall concerto (Walsall buses and trolleybuses in 1963/4) 3. Where next for bus preservation (the history and future of UK bus preservation) 4. London's utility Guys 5. North, south, east and west in 1981 (express coach de-regulation) 6. The strength of the toy (toy buses) 7. Yorkshire attraction (Yorkshire's bus operators in the 1960s and 70s) 8. Guarding at Frederick (conducting in Salford) 9. The year of the Routemaster (2005 Routemaster farewells) 10. Riding the classics (opportunities to ride vintage buses) 11. A backward glance (Hants, Dorset and beyond in 1962) 12. North by North Western (North Western Road Car Company) 13. Flair and style (bus design) 14. Anatomy of a batch of Crosville Bristols (Crosville's MB251-262) 15. Roger and out (the Routemaster)

SDB

Published in 2006 by Ian Allan
 

Classic Bus Yearbook 2007

Edited by Gavin Booth

ISBN 0-7110-321-2 - 185mm x 245mm - 128 pages - Hardback
Illustrated in Colour and Monochrome

1. Triumphs and troubles of the 1930s (influences on bus design in a difficult economic period) 2. Milestones in double-deck bus design/1 (Leyland's Titan TD1) 3. Going my way? (considering the many ways that operators have provided destination information) 4. Milestones in double-deck bus design/2 (AEC Regent RT) 5. An open and closed case (photos of sightseeing buses of London) 6. Memories of 1982 (the editor's photos of buses from that year) 7. Milestones in double-deck bus design/3 (Guy Arab Utility) 8. Rallying the classics (classic buses at rallies) 9. The colour supplement (colour photos relating to articles in the yearbook) 10. Happy anniversary... (Robert E. Jowitt on 35 years of writing for books like this... (Part 1)) 11. Oldham's distinctive fleet (Oldham's fleet from 1944 to SELNEC) 12. The second-hand trolleybus boom (second-hand trolleybuses) 13. Milestones in double-deck bus design/4 (Bristol Lodekka) 14. Gone but not forgotten (London's T and TD classes) 15. A blast from the past (photos from the editor's teenage years) 16. Milestones in double-deck bus design/5 (Leyland Atlantean) 17. Roger and out (registration marks, trim, moustaches and brothels...)

MPB

Published in 2007 by Ian Allan
 

London Bus Review 1973

Leon Daniels, Peter Hoskins, Brian Merrza, Colin Stannard  & James Whiting

ISBN 0-9503-2190-7 - 210mm x 296mm - 54 pages - Softback
Illustrated in monochrome

"LOTS' first yearly review provides sections covering the vehicle and route developments for both London Transport and London Country and includes comprehensive appendixes recording every route amendment.

1973 saw further new deliveries of the DMS that were used to replace older crew operated London Transport vehicles. The withdrawal of the ill fated AEC Merlins was announced while Metro-Scania and Leyland National single deckers were trialled on route S6. Further all over advert buses were adding some extra colour to the capital's streets.

London and Country were also updating their fleet with deliveries of Leyland Nationals, Bristol LHs and five Plaxton Panorama Coaches. All the Leyland Atlantean XA class were withdrawn and dispatched to Hong Kong."

KRE

Published in 1974 by the London Omnibus Traction Society (LOTS)
 

London Bus Review 1974

Leon Daniels, Peter Hoskins, Brian Merrza, Colin Stannard  & James Whiting

ISBN 0-9503-2193-1 - 210mm x 296mm - 56 pages - Softback
Illustrated in monochrome

"London Transport services were suffering from staff and fuel shortages while vehicle maintenance problems were a major problem due to shortage of spare parts for some newer vehicle types.

Over 400 new Daimler Fleetlines entered service many replacing AEC Merlins which were rapidly being taken out of service and put into to store on a disused airfield.

London Country had a quiet year in terms of route changes but received more new Leyland National and Bristol LH deliveries. The fad for all over advert buses led to several more vehicles being adorned."

KRE

Published in 1975 by the London Omnibus Traction Society (LOTS)
 

London Bus Review 1975

Leon Daniels, Peter Hoskins, Brian Merrza, Barry Arnold, Colin Stannard & Eamonn Kentell

ISBN 0-95032-19 - 210mm x 296mm - 52 pages - Softback
Illustrated in monochrome

"This edition is to a similar format to previous editions but has extra appendixes covering new bus lanes, fares increases and fleet changes in addition to the normal comprehensive list of route changes.

Shortages of vehicle spares reach crisis point at London Transport leading to Southend Transport buses and private coaches being hired, surplus former British Airways RMA Routemasters were also pressed  into service in East London.

Meanwhile Fleetline deliveries continued along with the first of 164 MCW Metropolitan double deckers and six small Bristol LHS single deckers. The long awaited Leyland Titan prototype made it's first appearance on the streets of London.

London Country were facing similar vehicle shortages and also hired in a varied collection of vehicles to cover services. Only 30 new vehicles, all Leyland Nationals, were delivered during the year while over 100 RF & RT class vehicles left the fleet."

KRE

Published in 1976 by the London Omnibus Traction Society (LOTS)
 

London Bus Review 1976

Chris Holland, Guy Brigden, Leon Daniels, Brian Merrza, David Stewart, Barry Arnold, Colin Stannard & Eamonn Kentell

ISBN 0-9503-2195-8 - 210mm x 296mm - 56 pages - Softback
Illustrated in monochrome & colour

"London Country and London Transport were still suffering from staff and vehicle shortages at the start of 1976 but 569 new vehicles, mainly Fleetlines and MCW Metropolitan double deckers, helped ease the situation in the capital and see off large numbers of RTs and AEC Merlins.

Meanwhile London Country took delivery of 85 Leyland Nationals and with the help of a programme of route reductions was able to return most of hired vehicles and withdraw all the remaining RT and RF class buses inherited from London Transport in 1970."

KRE

Published in 1977 by the London Omnibus Traction Society (LOTS)
 

London Bus Review 1977

Chris Holland, Guy Brigden, Brian Merrza, Mark Chapman, David Stewart, Barry Arnold, Colin Stannard, Mike Harris & Eamonn Kentell

ISBN 0-9503-2196-6 - 210mm x 296mm - 68 pages - Softback
Illustrated in monochrome & colour

"1977 marked the Queen's Silver Jubilee and 25 specially sponsored silver Routemasters entered service with London Transport. Large numbers of Daimler Fleetlines and the balance of the MD class MCW Metropolitan double deckers were delivered along with the first of the Leyland Nationals which was destined to become the new standard single deck type for the Capital.

First mass withdrawals of the the AEC Swift buses follow on after the Merlins, meanwhile more RTs and RFs headed off to the Yorkshire scrap yards but London Country's cast-off Routemasters were saved from a similar fate and snapped-up by their original owner for further service and spare parts.

London Country took 15 new Bristol VRTs into stock along with yet more Leyland National and Bristol LHS buses.

A start was made on upgrading vehicles used on Green Line Services when the first of a new fleet AEC Reliance luxury coaches arrived."

KRE

Published in 1978 by the London Omnibus Traction Society (LOTS)

 

London Bus Review 1978

Chris Holland, Guy Brigden, Brian Merrza, Mark Chapman, David Stewart, Barry Arnold, Colin Stannard & Mike Harris

ISBN 0-9503-2197-8 - 210mm x 296mm - 68 pages - Softback
Illustrated in monochrome & colour

"London Country received a large batch of  new Leyland Atlanteans and some of these are used to launch a new C-Line network of routes in Crawley. New Leyland Nationals also help see off many earlier types with more Routemasters being repatriated back to London Transport. Thirty more AEC Reliance coaches arrive continuing the re-vamp of the Green Line network.

London Transport carry out major route revisions under its Busplan '78 scheme. The last of the operator's  Daimler Fleetlines are delivered followed by the first of the next generation of double deck Leyland Titans and MCW Metrobuses. More Routemaster are acquired from other operators as the RT fleet dwindles."

KRE

Published in 1979 by the London Omnibus Traction Society (LOTS)
 

London Bus Review 1979

Joel Kosminsky, Chris Holland, Guy Brigden, Mark Chapman, David Stewart, Barry Arnold & Mike Harris

ISBN 0-9503-2198-6 - 210mm x 296mm - 76 pages - Softback
Illustrated in monochrome & colour

"1979 was an eventful year for London Transport: 13 buses received a special livery to mark the 150^th Anniversary of the first Shillibeer Omnibus horse bus service started in 1879. The twelve Routemasters and a single DM Leyland Fleetline spent periods throughout the year operating on various routes right across London. Sixteen Routemasters were also adorned in Shop-Linker livery for a rather short-lived Central London service.

1979 also marked the end of an era as the final RT and RF buses were withdrawn from London service.

London Country continued its programme of route revisions with major changes in Grays and Watford. The last new Leyland Nationals arrived, as did the final batch of AEC Reliance RB and RS class coaches for the Green Line routes. New Leyland Atlanteans see off most of the remaining Routemasters and withdrawals start of other non-standard vehicles."

KRE

Published in 1980 by the London Omnibus Traction Society (LOTS)