In this issue Peter Roberts recalls one fine day in 1961 when he organised the first tour for the Manchester group of the PSV Circle. They travelled on a gorgeous AEC Q coach of Silver Service of Darley Dale, but also looked at Hulley’s of Baslow, went to Chesterfield, Matlock, Alfreton and the Crich Tramway Museum. He also tells of another trip they made at the end of the year to see Manchester’s disappearing Mancunians.
Robin Hannay concludes his story of the Guy Wulfrunian by explainingwhat they were like in production and in service.
We have an amazing tale of what happened after Nikita Kruschev bought a double-deck trolleybus from English Electric in 1936 and had it shipped to Russia. Then in our ‘every picture tells a story’ a Duple Vista bodied Bedford OB can be seen on its way to Brightonin the early 1950s.
Roger Davies went to new York and discovered some beautiful old buses in everyday service and reminds us of how Cardiff replaced its trolleybuses with motorbuses. David Cox looks back at when a new wind was sweeping through National Bus Company, and the man responsible for it. And in our letters, we learn about how a Gay Hostess hostess stumped the panel on Waht’s My Line!
Wallow in unashamed nostalgia and discovera bit more of how we got to where we are today.
