Buses Magazine | October 2013
SPECIAL FEATURES
IMBERBUS 2013
Routemasters and an LT on Salisbury Plain
IT’S SHOWTIME
What to expect at Coach & Bus Live and Busworld
GO GREEN, GO CROSVILLE
Weston fleet combines business with pleasure
DOUBLE END, SINGLE PURPOSE
Special buses built for a French attraction
GOLDEN SLUMBERS
Our reporter samples MegabusGold
A GREAT BRITISH BUS TRIP
Bob Hind rides from Glasgow to Aberdeen
NORTH DEVON ONE YEAR ON
How is Stagecoach settling in?
REGULARS
COMMENT
Retailers need buses
NEWS
PTEs win engine clean-up funds; First splits big region; Wrightbus export deals; Luton Busway ready to roll; new Optare CEO; UK Bus Awards
INSIDE TRACK
Good, bad and…perhaps
GLOBAL NEWS
New Malta crisis for Arriva; Russian import tax plan; Aldi partner jumps ship
IN LONDON
End in sight for cash fares; two more NBFL routes; more hybrids coming
MILLAR’S TALES
A pub called The Lodekka
PUBLICITY MATTERS
Brilliant in Brighton
PICTUREVIEW
Homeward bound in Hong Kong
VINTAGE FENTON FILE
A particularly rare Guy Wulfrunian
YOU WRITE
Quality contracts, publicity and memories of Mick Fowler
PRESERVATION UPDATE
A Belgian rally and a West Brom Daimler
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
REVIEWS
Some of the latest books and models to come our way
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Buses Magazine October 2013.