REPAIRS BY ENTHUSIASTS

North Western Motor Services keeps heritage vehicles on the road across the country, and perhaps soon around the world, as STEVE BANNER discovers

A 1996 DAF SB220 with Nor thern Counties Paladin bodywork in the care of the South Yorkshire Transport Trust, an organisation for whom NWMS has carried out work.
THE SOUTH YORKSHIRE TRANSPORT TRUST
Leicester City Transport PD3 264 (264 ERY) is owned by Leicester Transport Heritage Trust, a customer of NWMS.
LEICESTER TRANSPORT HERITAGE TRUST

Pick up any issue of this magazine and leaf through it, and it becomes clear in no time that there is huge interest in historic buses and coaches. The pages are littered with photos of them, often accompanied by knowledgeable articles setting out the history of particular makes and models. Restoration projects are regularly covered. The article on Dewsbury Bus Museum's rejuvenated Guy Wulfrunian which appeared in the January issue is a case in point. It was one I read with great interest as I remember travelling regularly on a Wulfrunian operated by Wolverhampton Corporation Transport back in the 1960s.

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