Many makes, sizes, ages and colours of vehicles were on display and in action at this year’s event, the fifth held at the British Motor Museum in Warwickshire
Over 100 preserved and modern buses and coaches gathered at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon, Warwickshire on 18 August for this year’s sixth annual Buses Festival, organised by the Key Publishing events team and sponsored by Buses and Bus & Coach Preservation.
In a summer that had swung between heatwaves, storms and floods, meteorology was again kind to this event, with frequent spells of sunshine on what turned out to be one of the drier days of August.
Rides on many of the entered vehicles – on routes ranging from a circuit of the enlarged museum site to a 13mile country drive – were popular throughout the day. Among them were two Birmingham City Transport postwar Standard doubledeckers, a Crossley DD42 and a Guy Arab, as well as a Barton Leyland Titan PD1, a two-stroke Foden, a Midland Red D9 and a Stagecoach Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMC in Midland Red heritage livery.
Visitors taking advantage of the VIP entry package enjoyed a behind-the-scenes talk by Denis Chick and Royston Morgan aboard their ex-Devon General 1966 MCWbodied AEC R…
