Contents

NEWS    
Go-Ahead buys Plymouth Citybus; Green Bus Fund winners; West Yorks plans for quality contracts; Brighton & Hove wins top UK Bus Award; Cumbria flood chaos; Clayton Jones questions IBT sale
BUS PEOPLE
Developments at Reading, Cardiff and MAN
INSIDE TRACK
How many marks for the purple giants?
GLOBAL NEWS   
End for Wellington’s Volvo trolleybuses and the Solingen turntable; Stuttgart tests Citaro hybrid
IN LONDON
Route 38 reverts to double-deckers; Transdev takes over NSL routes; light shed on heater
problem
MILLAR’S TALES 
Central Scottish loses its roots (and routes); Flora’s buses through the decades; when
size isn’t everything
ARRIVA’S MOBILE REVOLUTION
Mobile phones start replacing
paper tickets
FENTON FILE
A Leyland that is more than it first appears KICK-STARTING GROWTH
IN THE GARDEN
How Stagecoach has expanded in East Kent
STILL FIT AT FIFTY
Half a century on, we look at the F-series Lodekka
NANTES BRT — A FRENCH SUCCESS            
Bus rapid transit instead of trams
PICTUREVIEW
Dublin Olympians with new English owners
YOU WRITE
Quality contracts, LibDems, hard seats, Wulfrunians and Werner Heubeck Communicating with Generation
FLEET NEWS ENGLAND & WALES   
Compiled by John G. Lidstone
REGISTRATION NOTES     
Q-mark, Isle of Man and Northern Ireland
developments
FLEET NEWS SCOTLAND
Compiled by Sandy Macdonald
FLEET NEWS IRELAND
Compiled by G. Irvine Millar and Ian Molloy
PRESERVATION UPDATE
Wirral twist to Merseyside anniversary
REVIEWS               
Books about Bob Dunn, schoolbuses, D9s and
Scotland, plus new Northcord models