Contents

NEWS     
Stagecoach reaches out to Sheffield; OFT clears Go-Ahead/Arriva swap; Cardiff to
keep bus company; Voith’s new midibus ‘box; McKindless closes down
BUS PEOPLE
Management changes at First, Arriva and Stagecoach; new director at Newport;
heads roll at SPT; deaths of Andrew Johnson and Albert Booth
BOB LEWIS, THE TMS TRANSFORMER
Remembering the man who turned
Trimdon Motor Services into a mini group
INSIDE TRACK
Crazy money, but none for us
GLOBAL NEWS
Berlin says farewell to troubled double-deckers; German cities say hybrids unaffordable;
Arriva retains Danish routes; US schoolbus giant offers funds for education
IN LONDON 22
The launch of East London Transit; an old rulebook about short turning
MILLAR’S TALES    
Incredible ideas about international coaches and reinvented trolleybuses
WHY PTEs WANT SINGLE NETWORKS 
South Yorkshire’s David Brown gives his vision for better buses
MR CORNWALL
We meet the man who made Western Greyhound big and beautiful
FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU
What the Omnibus Society offers 21st century enthusiasts
SERVICE EXTRA
No car? That will cost you, guv
BACK AROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH
John Cash senses that more radical legislation is on its way
PICTUREVIEW
Leyland longevity: late models still at work
YOU WRITE
The OFT and the bus industry, ‘provincial’ RTs and hydrogen v trolleybuses
FENTON FILE
A possibly unique combination of body and Mercedes Vario chassis
PUBLICITY MATTERS             
Suffolk: sublime to corblimey
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
PRESERVATION UPDATE
Australian running day; Tracline Metrobus Restored
REVIEWS
Books about trolleybuses, photography, wreckers, Singapore and fleet handbooks,
plus new diecast models