| On offer at 25% discount - limited to current stocks Since it was first published in 1995, Classic Bus Yearbook has firmly established itself as one of the most popular of road transport titles. This year's eclectic mix of articles and photo-features includes coverage of bus operations in London, Manchester and Wolverhampton and provides a close look at Strachens the coachbuilders. An annual 'must have' for every bus enthiusiast. Contents:
- INTRODUCTION
- PIPEDREAM . . . ? - Of course, the Tilling Group`s postwar fleet was highly standardised and an example to others. Or was it? MICHAEL DRYHURST investigates
- CLASSIC WONDERBUS - It was on the market for more than 30 years and sold in thousands. What was it? ALAN MILLAR reveals all
- CROSVILLE MEMORABILIA - DAVID FLETCHER dips into his collection and comes up with some wartime propaganda and a million-mile Titan
- CHECKPOINT/1 - A well-loved Scottish independent, checked out by ALAN MILLAR
- PRESELECTOR ARAB Ills - We think of Daimlers and AEC doubledeckers with preselector gearboxes - but Guys? DAVID HARVEY on the postwar Guys that featured this gearbox
- A SAFE BET - The pre-NIBC liveries of the British Electric Traction group (BET) were very popular among enthusiasts. A selection of TED JONES colour photos remembers BET vehicles in all their glory
- 1982 - GAVIN BOOTH looks back at what was old and what was new in that year 20 years ago, just at the point when CB recognises a Classic Bus
- AECs THAT HAD LEYLAND `HEARTS` - ALAN TOWNSIN tells how Leyland`s potcavity diesel combustion system of the 1930s was used in the AEC 8.8-litre engine
- LETTERS FROM LONDON - The first of three contributions by CHRIS DREW, illustrating London vehicle type letters that have been used more than once - usually on very different buses. First - two tough Guys
- BUSES AND BELFRIES - Who else but ROBERT E JOWITT, who dwells on higher matters, architectural and omnibological, in his inimitable style
- CHECKPOINT/2 - Cardiff Corporation gets the ALAN MlLLAR treatment
- COACHWORK BY STRACHANS - GEOFF BURROWS takes a look at one of the well-known coachbuilders of the 20th century, helped by photographs and advertisements rescued from the company`s archives
- CHECKPOINT/3 - Dennis`s Lodekka comes under ALAN MILLAR`s scrutiny
- LIKE THE BACK-END OF A BUS - A popular insult, and you can sometimes see why, back-ends of buses are rarely photographed. Fortunately, CHRIS PALMER has been taking rear views
- LEAVING LANCASHIRE - JOHN ALDRIDGE looks back at Lancashire as it was in his last days as editor of Leyland Journal
- LETTERS FROM LONDON - Does nobody want me for a Sunbeam?, CHRIS DREW asks in the second of his features on type letters
- GB`s ABC OF CB - With Classic Bus magazine in its tenth year, GAVIN BOOTH takes an alphabetical look back at CB since 1992
- CHECKPOINT/4 - Plaxton wasn`t always such a power in the land, ALAN MILLAR recalls
- LETTERS FROM LONDON - Two more Guys get the CHRIS DREW treatment
- ROGER AND OUT - Withdrawn busman, ROGER DAVIES, looks back at his first forays to the north in `Only a Northern song`
Continent: Europe
Country: UK |
