Title: Buses Yearbook 2018
Editor: Stewart J. Brown
Publisher: Key Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-912205-25-7
Specification: 240mm x 175mm, 128pp, hardback
Price: £17.99
There is something for most tastes in the 2018 Buses Yearbook, which follows the format that has characterised it for 47 of its 55 years, with a mix of articles and photofeatures, both historic and contemporary, covering many subjects.
Among the articles, Alan Millar considers the impact of the Transport Act 1968 and the creation of the British Leyland Motor Corporation. Half a century on and the National Bus Company, Scottish Transport Group, passenger transport executives and BLMC have all been and gone. In many cases there is little sign that they ever existed, although modern buses still follow the layouts dictated by the New Bus Grant.
John Robinson describes buses of Merseyside PTE, one of the creations of the 1968 Act, while Peter Rowlands presents an Englishman’s view of how operators in Scotland followed a different path to those south of Hadrian’s Roman wall.
Gavin Booth rues the fact that he largely ignored the demise of Britain’s trolleybuses but provides an overview of the foreign systems with which he has been acquainted. He also regr…
