issue 195 (February – March 2025)

With a new book out on the subject, Gavin Booth takes a look at Edinburgh’s buses and trams over the years, while Mike Fenton gives us the low-down on Norfolk coachbuilder Mann Egerton. A previous piece by Mike on Wilks & Meade has brought forth more information from Paul Carter on the double deckers it built for Premier, and our delve into The Bus Archive this time looks at municipal pride, with municipal buses passing municipal town halls in Lancashire that were built with verve, confidence and gusto!

Talking of municipal pride, we have a feature on the days when Preston decided to switch from buying double deckers to buying single deck Leyland Panthers; still on a local theme, we also see some Bournemouth trolleybuses in less-than-happy circumstances. We visit Surrey Street bus station in Norwich in 1970, cross a bascule bridge in North Wales with a Lodekka, and get seasonally chilly in the snow in Tilehurst in Berkshire. And we’re back on the Earls Court forecourt, and inside, at the 1968 Commercial Motor Show, but in colour this time…

in this issue

• Edinburgh's bus and tram story – in a new book
• Premier's county class – those Wilks & Meade double deckers
• Lancashire pride – town halls and buses from The Bus Archive
• at Earls Court again – more on display in 1968
• Bournemouth trolleybus scenes – not always upright
• the white stuff – buses in snowy Berkshire
• a pride of Panthers? – when Preston went rear-engined
• Mann Egerton bodies – another Classic Coachbuilder
• Norwich's Surrey Street – in 1970
• Queensferry Bridge – with a Lodekka passing over