Pridesale 27th Nov 2018
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SPECIAL FEATURES
WHEN READING DEWIRED ITS TROLLEYBUSES
As another electric era beckons, we look back 50 years to the end of an earlier one in the Thames Valley
MEGASIGHTSEEING – CHEAP, CHEERFUL CHALLENGE
We sample Stagecoach’s budget open-top tour of London
BRITAIN’S BREATHING SPACES
Bob Hind rides around the Norfolk Broads
4WD IN FUNCHAL
The unusual lorry buses on the steep hills of Madeira
REGULARS
COMMENT
Blakey may not be dead
NEWS
Rotala sells Wessex Bus; HCT Group buys Powells Bus; Volvo B5LHC trial starts in London; Coventry to keep its blue buses; Walsall heritage Trident coming to Gaydon; mainstream electrics to launch at Hannover; super-size Mercedes Sprinter; Stagecoach makes gains in Guildford; new CEO for Reading Buses; death of former Oxford MD Douglas Adie
INSIDE TRACK
Show more respect to paying customers
GLOBAL NEWS
First order for electric Enviro500; National Express wins major contract in Morocco; First expands schoolbus operations in Canada with Ontario acquisition; reprieve for Italian trolleybuses
LOOK IN ON LONDON
Latest tendered service awards; digital destinations go on trial; BCI tri-axle out on test; 70 years since first green RTs; sightseeing tour consolidation
MILLAR’S TALES
A strange bus bay in Craster; Blakey in Brontë Country; a knight out in Montreux
PUBLICITY MATTERS
Self-help in Shropshire
HALFCABS ETCETERA
Retired buses tracked down to new roles
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ALL CHANGE
Chester from the 1960s to the present day
FENTON FILE
A rare variant of the Optare Solo
YOU WRITE
The importance of printed publicity, labour relations, Stockport’s new buses station and concerns about Scottish quality partnerships
PRESERVATION UPDATE
Alton, Essex, Isle of Man and other recent rallies
FLEET NEWS ENGLAND & WALES
Compiled by John G. Lidstone
FLEET NEWS SCOTLAND
Compiled by Sandy Macdonald
FLEET NEWS IRELAND
Compiled by Paul Savage and Ian Molloy
REVIEWS
Books on London by night, National Express coaches and Amersham & District, plus a DVD on Midland Red’s pioneering motorway coaches |