The WHOTT vision is to establish a museum devoted to the history and development of commercial and public road transport in the region.  We are rigorously searching for a site that offers the best potential and is easily accessible.  Meanwhile our Leyland Panther saloon acts as our mobile museum, offering a wide range of information about the WHOTT as an organisation, as well as staging exhibitions.  The Trust has eighteen vehicles in its care, covering a period 1938 to 1994, including traditional half-cab single and double-deck buses, luxury coaches, minibuses and a commercial vehicle.  It also has a growing archive facility that can be visited by appointment.

Soon after being established WHOTT was registered as a limited company by guarantee and also managed to obtain charitable status.  To have some level of control we published a Collections Policy that provides a strict approach to what we can and cannot collect.  Basically we are interested in anything to do with manufacturing and operating commercial road transport throughout the south west.  The period of interest extends from the late nineteenth century to the present day and we are as much keen to record and preserve examples of the latest technology as we are to faithfully accommodate things from the past.

Between them the Trustees and Friends of WHOTT possess enormous knowledge and enthusiasm relating to public and commercial road transport operation.  This is the key to establishing a museum that could, for posterity, combine that knowledge and provide an educational tool for the benefit of students of all ages.

Kalmia, Church Road, Colaton Raleigh, Devon EX10 0LW, or the Chairman