Contents

NEWS
Pre-election government bus promises; Germans bid for Arriva; Go-Ahead acquiresKonectbus; Stagecoach’s Sheffield plans; Lothian rediscovers madder; coaches mayreturn to TrawsCambria
BUS PEOPLE
Alex Hornby joins Trent Barton; deaths of prominent preservationists
INSIDE TRACK
Beware the Ides of March
GLOBAL NEWS
Futuristic trolleybuses for Saudi Arabia; Swedish storms; Hamburg hybrids
MILLAR’S TALES
Whippet runs on The Busway; Oxford in Oldham; the trouble with AECs
BLUESTAR REFRESHMENT
How the former Solent Blue Line has changed in five years
READY TO GO GREEN
BAE Systems says it is ready for the day hybrids take off
WEIGHT WATCHING
How the likes of the SB200 and Enviro300 are faring
BACK TO BASICS
Alan Townsin urges today’s designers to respect the Bedford OWB
MALTA — THE MOVING MUSEUM MODERNISES
David Jenkins looks beyond sentiment at why the island’s buses must change
PICTUREVIEW
Lothian Airlink — blue sky thinking
YOU WRITE
West Midlands needs Competition Commission; GMPTE and photographers; fares onpark-&-ride; ‘provincial’ RTs; that foolish cross-Channel Amfibus
FENTON FILE
The only open-top East Lancs-bodied Volvo Citybus
FLEET NEWS ENGLAND AND WALES
Compiled by John G. Lidstone
22 IN LONDON
Hybrid orders announced; new diesels in latest tender wins; support for bus photographers
PUBLICITY MATTERS
Do it yourself — Pat Russell shows how