Contents

NEWS
PTEs set out their election manifesto; BRT favoured over rail in Glasgow; Cardiff competition sparks OFT reference
BUS PEOPLE
Deaths of Clive and Gordon Hodgson
INSIDE TRACK
Andrew Braddock’s latest provocative thoughts on public transport today
GLOBAL NEWS
Sixty years of Arnhem trolleybuses; Swiss PostAuto reports upturn
IN LONDON
Route 360 to go 100% hybrid; Solos save fuel at Quality Line
MILLAR’S TALES
The editor’s recollections in this anniversary issue
FIRST WARRINGTON, THEN THE WORLD
Why a 60-year-old Leyland has visited four continents in 40 years
THE FIRST PTE
Malcolm Keeley distills the West Midlands story
ERIC’S LIFETIME BUS RIDE
Eric Hutchinson looks back on his career in the private and public sectors
FENTON’S DIAMOND FILE
Eight unusual buses around in the 1940s and 1950s
MEET THE EDITORS — ALAN TOWNSIN
Stewart Brown meets the man who introduced many to bus enthusiasm
THE RICH LEGACY OF JCG
Remembering John Gillham, a key contributor to our early issues
MEET THE EDITORS — STEPHEN MORRIS
Our longest serving former editor recalls 20 years of great change
LEGENDS AND LANDMARKS
Six of the most signifi cant buses and how we reported on them
A NATIONAL EXPRESS JOURNEY
Stuart Render provides an insider’s view from 1989
IT’S YOUR MAGAZINE
Buses Illustrated and Buses and its key contributors viewed through the eyes of some readers
THE VOICE OF OUR READERS
Some of the hottest topics that prompted you to write letters to the editor over the magazine’s fi rst 25 years
YOU WRITE
The topics that have prompted you to write to us this month
PUBLICITY MATTERS
David Jenkins considers how things have changed since 1979
REGISTRATION NOTES AT 50+
David Stanier revisits this feature’s origins and what it has reported
FLEET NEWS ENGLAND & WALES
Compiled by John G. Lidstone
FLEET NEWS SCOTLAND
Compiled by Sandy Macdonald
FLEET NEWS IRELAND
Compiled by G. Irvine Millar and Ian Molloy
EFE SHOWBUS INTERNATIONAL
Highlights of the UK’s biggest bus and coach gathering
REVIEWS
Two annuals from our early years, as well as recent books