As we approach the milestone of our 75th anniversary, this is your opportunity to share your interests and knowledge through the pages of Buses
Next year is a big one for Buses. We celebrate our 75th year in publication and we want to involve you in how we mark this major milestone. The first edition of what then was called Buses Illustrated appeared in November-December 1949 with a mission to inform, educate and entertain its readers with pictorial articles that simplified the complexities about how bus and tram operators functioned, who they were, what they did and told the stories behind the vehicles they used. Its content assumed that its readers were predominantly young — still at school, probably — and knew little about the bus scene beyond their own locality but had a hunger to learn much more. There were articles on when the world’s first bus serviceses began (apparently in Paris in 1662, an initiative by Blaise Pascal, inventor of the adding machine), on the history of bus tickets, the mechanicalal fundamentals of a bus and the job of a driver. “An intelligent study of transport will reveal much of importance about what i…
