Cover picture:National Express West Midlands MCW Metrobus Mk11 2751 (A751 WVP) operating one of Lea Hall garage's routes that has kept this classic type right to the end

Contents

NEWS
Report plots way forward for London; Stagecoach enters the race to buy NatEx and announces new bus orders; First brings Greyhound to England; Manchester seeks Kick-Start funds; Western Greyhound expands; Two pull out of London bus bidding
BUS PEOPLE
Optare job changes bring back Russell Richardson; tram boss to chair Lothian Buses
INSIDE TRACK
Britain’s political bus blunders
GLOBAL NEWS
Subsidy fears for Arriva; early end for Edmonton trolleybuses
IN LONDON
Go-Ahead to buy East Thames; beginning of the end for bendybuses
RT1 — SAVE IT FOR BRITAIN
John Aldridge helps re-enact its 1939 press launch
MILLAR’S TALES
Barbie in Belfast, a reconstructed Freeline and the Jakarta PD3
BIRTH OF THE METROBUS
The pivotal role that London Transport took in launching this classic design
PICTUREVIEW
Merseyside rarities — two Leylands and an unusual Scania
YOU WRITE
Buses, trains and trams; trolleybuses against fuel-cells; New Bus for London
FENTON FILE
A one-off single-decker in Stagecoach service
PUBLICITY MATTERS
Bus-based rival to the ubiquitous sat-nav
BUSES 60 GATHERING
Latest news of our Wroughton gathering
FLEET NEWS ENGLAND & WALES
Compiled by John G. Lidstone
THE COACH PARC
The story of the Caetano Porto
FLEET NEWS SCOTLAND
Compiled by Sandy Macdonald
FLEET NEWS IRELAND
Compiled by G. Irvine Millar and Ian Molloy
PRESERVATION UPDATE
Restored buses and coaches, old and not-so-old
REVIEWS
Buses Yearbook, books on London, Southdown and a Midlands independent