issue 193 (October – November 2024)

Our previous feature on the coachbuilder Gurney Nutting has generated a lot of interest. Not only do we have a preserved beauty on the cover (and its rear view on the back), but there’s more inside, too. And we uncover the truth about the Matchbox model coach previously puzzled about. There’s a bit more on Margo’s of South London, as well. 

Our classic coachbuilder this issue is Dodson, and our delve into The Bus Archive focuses on when Stevenage had Superbus to get people to from work in the town. We also track prowling Panthers in Dorset, Vetters in the Alps and Bristol Bristols around, well, Bristol!

Hugh Taylor explains how London Transport removed poles and wires and other paraphernalia after the trolleybuses went, and we have brief reports on London’s Routemaster at 70 celebration and the annual, almost bonkers, but tremendous fun day on Salisbury Plain at Imberbus. Our feature on Teesside kindled some memories, as did the time when Townsend Thoreson ran buses to connect with ferries.

in this issue

• more Gurney Nutting coaches – they keep on coming
• Panther Cubs on the prowl – second lives in Dorset
• LHs ordered by Wigan – but delivered to GMT
• another classic coachbuilder – Mike Fenton looks at Dodson
• more of Margo's – at Penge this time
• a sign brought back to life – United Service Transport in South London
• the real Matchbox coach – an Italian attempt to woo the Brits
• a useful roof luggage rack – for bands, then boats
• Townsend Thoresen – in Felixtowe this time
• Alpine Vetters – and in Heidelberg
• Bristol practices – and where you could get on and off
• removing the wires and poles – after the trolleybuses had gone
• when Stevenage went Super – from The Bus Archive
• we're back in Middlesbrough – on a nostalgic running day
• the Routemaster reaches 70 – and several cross Salisbury Plain again