Contents

NEWS    
Arriva investigates Keolis tie-up; CT Plus looks for acquisitions; Oxford bus agreement;
Centrebus starts in Calderdale; Stagecoach demonstrates Dutch Amfibus
BUS PEOPLE
Saint joins Optare board; ops manager for Oxford Tour; Guy to head industry inquiry;
death of Northern Counties’ David Cherry
INSIDE TRACK
In reality, many a time the OFT have rated us
GLOBAL NEWS     
Maltese operators sell up; Hamburg serves notice on diesel; ups and downs of Latin
American trolleybuses; Veolia seizes coach deregulation chance in Germany
IN LONDON
Another route gets its post-bendy contract; north Surrey changes afoot
MILLAR’S TALES
Playbus charity seeks funds for its FL Lodekka; Avon Gorge Expressway recalled
PLUSBUS — INTEGRATION IN ACTION
Add-on bus tickets from rail companies help deliver an old dream
THE BLACK ARTS OF BRANDING        
Trent Barton, the regional bus company national groups strive to follow
VCS — QUART IN A PINT POT
A look behind the scenes at London’s Victoria Coach Station
HOW COLOURFUL WERE MY VALLEYS            
We remember some of the South Wales municipals
RT1 — THE ‘PROVINCIAL’ CONNECTION
The buses beyond London that sprang from the 1939 prototype
PUBLICITY MATTERS
Missing maps mar moving experience
YOU WRITE
Quality contracts, London QICs and short turns, passenger complaints
FENTON FILE
A minibus from a company big in bullion vans
FLEET NEWS ENGLAND & WALES     
Compiled by John G. Lidstone
THE COACH PARC
The rarity that was the Padane ZX
FLEET NEWS SCOTLAND
Compiled by Sandy Macdonald
FLEET NEWS IRELAND
Compiled by G. Irvine Millar and Ian Molloy
PRESERVATION UPDATE
LVVS funding success, Belgian running day, Coventry reunion, Kelvin RM
REVIEWS               
Books about Kent, the Black Country, Leyland, Wiles and On the Buses, plus new diecast models