[3014AH] Here is Patrick Burnside’s splendid 1959 Bristol MW5G {139.227} /ECW {10380} B45F; seen at Duxford on Sunday 27th September 2009. New as Eastern Counties LL452, then LM452, and later LM952. (Does the fleetname look a bit low?) (© Neil Fraser)

[802MHW] Bristol FSF6G {179.023} / ECW {12285} H34/26F; new 10/1961 as Cheltenham District 6037; seen here arriving at Cheltenham Promenade to take up service on the main line 94 to Gloucester on the occasion of the 2009 Cheltenham Running Day (© Rob McCaffery)

[924AHY] Bristol MW5G {135.022} / ECW {9680} B45F; new 3/1958 as Bristol 2934; seen here working free route 80 in Cheltenham on the occasion of the 2009 Cheltenham Running Day (© Rob McCaffery)

[969EHW] Bristol LD6G {150.188} / ECW {10887} H33/25RD; new 7/1959 as Bath Electric L8515; seen here at the other end of the 94 in Gloucester on the occasion of the 2009 Cheltenham Running Day (© Rob McCaffery)

[AHU803] 1934 rebodied Bristol J seen here on the free route 80 in Cheltenham on the occasion of the 2009 Cheltenham Running Day (© Rob McCaffery) NOTE: Full details of this vehicle can be found at http://www.bvbg.org.uk/AHU803.htm

[ALJ986] Bournemouth Corporation #202 (formerly #112) Sunbeam MS2 {MS212081T} / Park Royal O40/29R {B3649}; new 6-6-35; withdrawn 7-65. **Survivor** – in preservation at the East Anglian Transport Museum. Photographed here at Castle Lane Depot, April 1969. (© Peter Esposito via Chris Stanley)

[CKG667] CITY OF CARDIFF TRANSPORT poling wagon, new in 1946 as Bristol K6A / Duple H30/26R. Converted to service vehicle in 1959. Photographed January 1970. (© Peter Esposito via Chris Stanley)

[CUV30C] London Transport XA30; 1965 Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 {L41129} / Park Royal {B52939} H41/31F; seen here on the East Grinstead route 424 in March 1968. (© Peter Esposito via Chris Stanley)

[ERD151] READING CORPn #180, a 1950 Sunbeam S7 / Park Royal, photographed April 1967; entered service 1st December 1950 – withdrawn 15th January 1968. (© Peter Esposito via Chris Stanley)

[FFN379] EAST KENT Guy Arab / Park Royal H56R; new 1951; Here in Lambeth, June 1970. (© Peter Esposito via Chris Stanley)

[FFY403] here with the COBHAM BUS MUSEUM. New in 1947 as SOUTHPORT CORPORATION #86, Leyland PD2/3 / Leyland H30/26R. Converted to open top in 1962. (© Michael Clarke via Chris Stanley)

[GFN 923] EAST KENT 1953 Guy Arab / Park Royal 56-seater. Lambeth, June 1970; (© Peter Esposito via Chris Stanley)

[GHT154] A real head-turner was the former Bristol Tramways 1940 Bristol K seen here on the free route 80 in Cheltenham on the occasion of the 2009 Cheltenham Running Day (© Rob McCaffery) NOTE: Full details of this vehicle can be found at http://www.bvbg.org.uk/GHT154.htm

[HOT339] 1950 Bedford OB/Duple C27F; seen here at the Kettering Vintage Rally 26th September 2009; New to Graceline, Alresford. Passed to Brown Motor Services, Forest Green in 1952 who rallied it in the late 60s at Horsham and on the Brighton Run. Then went on its travels to Portugal and travelled all over the continent as motor home. Acquired by current owners in 2001 who restored it over five years. (© Peter Jarman)

[JXC323] ex-London Transport TD130, Leyland PS1 {490662} / Mann Egerton B30F (original LT body No.2899) new 9/49; seen here as a visitor to Reading in October 1968 during the last week of its trolleybus system. (Was recently for sale) (© Peter Esposito via Chris Stanley)

[MMN302] Leyland Olympic HR40 {502364} / Weymann {L15} B40F; new - 1951 as Isle of Man Road Services #84; seen here in 1988 when it was in Liverpool’s short-lived Large Objects Collection display at Prince’s Dock. (©Rob McCaffery)

[MAN3432] Isle of Man National Transport #48. Leyland Atlantean PDR2/1 {7003943} / Alexander H49/31D {2L3/2269/85} new 4/72 as Merseyside PTE 1235 (XKC862K); seen here with IOMRS Olympic #84 pictured aboard the Ben-My-Chree on the 02.15 sailing from Heysham on 27th September 2009 on their way ‘home’ to the Jurby Transport Museum (© John Davis)

[SHL917] AEC Reliance {2MU3RV3574} / Plaxton {602297} C41C; new 12/1960 as West Riding 917; seen at a rally in Lincoln (© Dave Gothard)

[UMA370] Atkinson PD746 {FC3476} / Northern Counties H35/25CD; new 1955 as Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley & Dukinfield Joint Transport and Electricity Board #70; No. 70 rebuilt to H35/24CD in 1965; No. 70 to SELNEC 1.11.69 (provisionally allocated No. 5670, but not operated); A TRULY UNIQUE VEHICLE – the only one ever built; seen at the Manchester Museum of Transport, Boyle Street, Cheetham. (© Dave Gothard)

[WHW374H] Bristol RELH6L {RELH-4-306} / ECW {18766} DP49F; new 6/1970 as Bristol 2062; seen here back in Cheltenham (complete with Class 40 diesel loco horn) arriving on the ‘back road’ 98 service from Gloucester on the occasion of the 2009 Cheltenham Running Day (© Rob McCaffery)