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WHOTT’s News! – Prides itself with
educational content. In addition to
regular news, restoration and archive
updates, plus Points of View, the
following illustrated articles also
feature.
Issues 1 – 36 are at A4 format in
entirely black and white (Issue 1 no
longer available).
Issues 37 onwards are at A5 with colour
cover and some colour content.
Currently available back issues are £2
per copy – postage free!
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94: May 2024
What …. No Chassis? Beadle of Dartford
Pangs of Nostalgia as Bill Looks Back
A Leeds Outstation – Wallace Arnold in
Devon (Part Three) |
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93: February 2024 (issued in March)
NARTM March conference
Pangs of Nostalgia as Bill Looks Back
Hawkeys of Newquay
Watts Factors of Lydney
A Leeds Outstation – Wallace Arnold in
Devon (Part Two) |
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92: November 2023
NARTM’s October conference
Pangs of Nostalgia as Bill Looks Back
Archive update
More on WEMS
A Leeds Outstation – Wallace Arnold in
Devon (Part One) |
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91: August 2023
Pangs of Nostalgia as Bill Looks Back
Letter from Australia
Sam Wallace – a forgotten truck man
C J Down of Mary Tavy in demise
Was it WEMS, or it is Wems? |
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90: May 2023
When is a Triangle not a Triangle?
Devon Vintage Bus and Coach depot
project – update
1299 seat retrim – update
Pangs of Nostalgia as Bill Looks Back
Foden steamers
Devon General Strike
The 1935 Commercial Motor Show
Exeter Trams – more come to light
Every picture tells a story |
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89: February 2023
Harrisons of Crewkerne
Pangs of Nostalgia as Bill Looks Back
Bradfords the builders’ merchants (Part
Two)
Exeter Trams
Taming the Lioness (mid-life upgrade) |
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88: November 2022
A Mevagissey Tale
The Omnibologist
Pangs of Nostalgia as Bill Looks Back
Bradfords the builders’ merchants (Part
One)
Bangs and Rattles (how body builders
overcame)
Western National Stroud depot |
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87: August 2022
Associated Motorways (Part Two)
Donald Healey, charabanc operator
…and the other Perranporth company
From solids to pneumatics (Part Two) |
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86: May 2022
Black & White Motorways (Part One)
Modernising the touring coach fleet
From solids to pneumatics (Part One) |
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85: February 2022
Up the Khyber Pass (ex Royal Blue
coaches used by Asian Greyhound)
The Waverley mystery FIAT
Brixham – Every Picture Tells a Story
Reminiscences from down under
Combined Group Project |
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84: November 2021
The strong Guys of Plymouth Corporation
Our archive photograph service
Oldest surviving Devon General bus
making a come back
Combined Group Project |
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83: August 2021
1299 seating appeal launched
Dorchester running day
Glendinning - What would we do without
roads?
She’ll be coming round the mountain when
she comes |
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82: May 2021
Whott’s in it for me?
Could this be you?
Marketing Analysis Project – MAP
A shelter for all occasions
Oldbury Again
Wartime Reminiscences
NARTM scoring and grading system
Charlie’s Cars of Bournemouth
A little piece of evidence
Exeter’s new bus station |
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81:February 2021
Bedford VAM – an interesting stop gap
WHOTT’s going on at Knowstone? (Part
Two)
Standing Passenger Orders
Just the Ticket - Part Two (pertaining
to machines)
Things are not always what they may
appear to be |
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80: November 2020
Mystery bus at Brislington (Plymouth
Regent)
WHOTT’s going on at Knowstone? (Part
One}
Ottery St Mary UDC
Just the Ticket – Part One (pertaining
to machines)
Southern National service 131 |
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79: August 2020
Exeter Echoes and Torquay Talks
Life is brighter for courtesy
Some Devon General discoveries |
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78: May 2020
National House, Exeter
Western National Dennis Lance 3440
Contents List of all WHOTT’s NEWS |
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77: February 2020
Royal Blue – a time to reflect – B E M
Symns
Archive update |
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76: November 2019
Update – EFJ92
Falmouth Railless Electric Traction
Isle of Wight – Beer & Buses Festival
Just the Ticket (and Passes)
Mystery of the missing suitcase –
Commander Francis Theodore Hare (RN) |
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75: August 2019
Coach trips from Ilfracombe
Dorchester Running Day – 2019 in
pictures |
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74: May 2019
Memories of a Bideford Clippie
Spending a penny at Bridport – Devon
General limited stop services
Coaching in Torbay – Part III |
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73: February 2019
One hundred years ago
Coaching in Torbay – Part II – the
antecedents of Grey Cars |
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72: November 2018
Coaching in Torbay – Part I – the
antecedents of Wallace Arnold Devon
Into the unknown – Austin Twenty UO2331
tours westcountry bus garages |
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71: August 2018
Toastrack Trio – Sidmouth Motor Company
& Dagworthy Ltd. – UO2331
Dorchester Running Day -
The other Bristol Bus – Straker Squire –
Part II |
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70: May 2018
The Midget – Plymouth & District –
Leyland Overtype
To Einbeck and back by Bere Regis coach
The other Bristol Bus – Straker Squire –
Part I |
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69: February 2018
The early Leyland Titans
Exeter Reality - Paul St. Bus & Coach
station |
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67/68: August/November 2017
On Time – Western National timetables
West Country Bristol /ECW interims –
Part III
Archive Sources – Part II
Obituary – Harold Blundred |
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66: May 2017
Archive Sources – Part I
West Country Bristol /ECW interims –
Part II
Exeter Miscellany – Paul St. Bus & Coach
station |
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65: February 2017
Black & White Motorways – Part III –
Associated Motorways
Fox Brothers, Wellington, Somerset
West Country Bristol /ECW interims –
Part I
Obituary – Philip Platt |
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64: November 2016
Black & White Motorways – Part II –
Associated Motorways
2006 - Ten years ago in the local papers
Exeter Bus Station
Wiltshire Moonrakers – update
West Country articles in Buses
Illustrated / Buses – Part III (Jul.1980
– Sep.1991) |
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63: August 2016
Heaver Coachbuilders
2006 - Ten years ago in the local papers
Wiltshire Moonrakers |
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62: May 2016
1956 - Sixty years ago in the local
papers
2006 - Ten years ago in the local papers
Through the night with Bill – overnight
trunking in 1959
Black & White Motorways – Part I
West Country articles in Buses
Illustrated / Buses – Part II (Apr.1964
– Jul.1978) |
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61: February 2016
The last bus from Bretonside Bus Station
WHOTT’s on eBay – 6 - Narrow bridges on
Dartmoor
2005 - Ten years ago in the local papers
1959 Review of Road Haulage in the South
West
History repeating itself – Exeter
redevelopment
West Country articles in Buses
Illustrated – Part I (Jan.1952 – Sept.
1963) |
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60: November 2015
Glover & Uglow – Part 3
Grist to the Mill – relocating the
Archive to Coldharbour Mill
2005 - Ten years ago in the local papers |
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59: August 2015
Glover & Uglow Haulage Contactors – Part
II
All change at Plymouth – Stagecoach take
over First depot
The challenge of steam propulsion – Part
II
What about our archive? The facility at
Estover
2005 - Ten years ago in the local papers |
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58: May 2015
Glover & Uglow Haulage Contractors –
Part I
The challenge of steam propulsion – Part
I
Obituary – Colin Shears
2005 - Ten years ago in the local papers
New charsabanc for Bristol Tramways –
1907 report from Motor Traction
Just the Ticket - 25 |
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57: February 2015
The life and times of Arthur John
Manning – Part II
Plymouth Co-op
Just the Ticket - 24 |
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56: November 2014
One hundred years ago
Bournemouth – Trowbridge by bus in 1953
The life and times of Arthur John
Manning – Part I
Replacing the Panther – R580SBA
Better by Miles – model buses
Plymouth Co-op – a prelude
Just the Ticket - 23 |
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55: August 2014
Exeter coach station 1974 – 1984
Royal Blue – memories of a driver’s wife
Scottish Independence – 1968 Transport
Act
Travelling the Westcountry by bus 1953
and 2013 – Part IV
The second book of St Marcus’s letters
to the Nation – 1953 Letter from Truro
Area Traffic Superintendent |
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54: May 2014
Exeter (and Plymouth) in Gloucester
Salisbury Bus Station closure event
Colin Shears – Happy Birthday, we salute
you
Travelling the Westcountry by bus 1953
and 2013 – Part III
Annual report for y/e 31st
May 2013 |
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53: February 2014
Weymouth’s legendary six-wheelers
Archive discoveries: 1 - Rennies of
Dunfermline – Dunfermline to Plymouth
service
Travelling the Westcountry by bus 1953
and 2013 – Part II
Managing the Trust |
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52: November 2013
A force to be reckoned with – Southern
General / Cornish Buses – Part II
Grey Cars – centenary event
Travels with a VR
Travelling the Westcountry by bus 1953
and 2013 – Part I
Just the ticket - 22 |
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51: August 2013
A force to be reckoned with -
Southern General
/ Cornish Buses – Part I
Royal Blue - the coaching reunion
Plymouth double-deckers - Cascading into
Cornwall
Just the ticket - 21 |
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50: May 2013
Railway bus services – Part IV – The
deal is done
Travels with a camera – service buses in
colour
Fifty years ago across the region - 1963 |
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49: February 2013
Railway bus services – Part III –
Initiating the Act of change
WHOTT’s on eBay – 5 – Fleetway’s Gilford
A glimpse into the archive
Just the Ticket - 20 |
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48: November 2012
Railway bus services – Part II – Trials
turn to success
The Lymington Road notebook – 1931 to
1940
Trathens - Plymouth
The Commercial Motor Journey – London to
Lands End in 1923
WHOTT - Change of Constitution procedure
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47: August 2012
Railway bus services – Part I – the
background
How a schoolboy’s dream came true –
Driving for WNOC – Jo Clarke - Part II
WHOTT – vehicle collection update
Just the Ticket - 19 |
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46: May 2012
Pangs of Nostalgia – Western / Southern
gas producers – Part II
How a schoolboy’s dream came true –
Driving for WNOC – Jo Clarke - Part I
St Minver memories |
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45: February 2012
Pangs of Nostalgia – Western / Southern
gas producers - Part I
Recent WHOTT presentations
More bodywork by Mashford,Cremyll
Just the Ticket - 18 |
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44: November 2011
Old Lady Back Home – Exeter Maudslay
FJ6154
WNOC Bristol RELL POD829H in
preservation on the Isle of Wight
1921 Weston super Mare objections
All change at Bude
Next time you fill up – fuel nozzles
designed by WNOC |
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43: August 2011
A Passion for Coaches in Cornwall – Part
4
Pangs of Nostalgia – Postwar
rejuvenation of Plymouth bus services
1921 Tragic accident at Beaminster
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42: May 2011
A Passion for Coaches in Cornwall – Part
3
Greenslades Tours, Exeter
The days before accessible buses – a
selection of independent operator
service buses
Annual report for y/e 31st
May 2010
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41: February 2011
A Passion for Coaches in Cornwall – Part
2 the Holiday coaches
Pangs of Nostalgia – maintaining bus
services in war torn Plymouth
WHOTT Book review – Wheels of the West
Just the Ticket – 17 |
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40: November 2010
A Passion for Coaches in Cornwall – Part
1
1935 Broken propeller shaft causes
traffic jam in Exeter
Pangs of Nostalgia – Timpson’s sojourn
in Torbay
Just the Ticket - 16 |
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39: August 2010
Blind Buff Man – bus destination blinds
The Tilling Stevens B10As of Western &
Southern National
Family trees in haulage – Bristol
Industries Ltd.
Model TS7Ds nearly as good as the real
thing
Aces galore – more on the Dennis Aces of
Western National and Southern National
Just the Ticket – 15 |
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38: May 2010
Buses on the Water – using ferries
Memories of Western National in Cornwall
– Part II
A Stay in Devon – reproduction from
Tilling magazine 1932
Frank Tucker of Exeter
Index to main articles in WHOTT’s News!
1 - 36 |
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37: February 2010
Memories of Radipole depot, Weymouth
Another goodbye – Wallace Arnold
Westcountry non-PSV operators in the
‘sixties
Pangs of Nostalgia – the Dennis Aces of
Western National and Southern National
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36: January 2010
Happy Holidays – Memories of a Kentish
Lad - 1950’s Devon
Royal Blue Timetable Books
Pangs of Nostalgia: The first Bedford’s
in the Western & Southern National Fleet |
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35: September 2009
Dunn’s Services – Taunton
By Royal Blue to Aberdeen …..from
Penzance
WHOTT Vehicles – Media Coverage
Memories of Western National in Cornwall
– Part I
End of the 80 year Gunn dynasty
Stories of the Swan Hotel, Hartley
Wintney |
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34: July 2009
Taylors’ Central Garages, Exeter
What Time is the Next Bus – Electronic
timetables
A Brixham Interregnum – Burtons in 1986
Pangs of Nostalgia: Jack Weyman – A
talented painter
A747DWP – a brief sojourn |
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33: February 2009
EFJ92 – The preservation years and
collection from Manchester
Isles of Scilly 1996 – A Pictorial
Study
Plymouth 1975 – Further Innovations
Swanage – A Brief Depot History
2009 – a year of anniversaries
WHOTT’s on eBay – 5 Royal Blue postcards
Just the Ticket – 14 |
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32: November 2008
EFJ92 – Latest addition to the WHOTT
fleet
WHOTT’s your favourite Bus or Coach
Station – 2008 Poll
WHOTT’s West Country Weekend – September
2008
Pangs of Nostalgia: Short Bus Routes in
the West Country |
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31: August 2008
WHOTT’s your Favourite Vehicle – 2008
Poll
Truronian – acquired by First Devon &
Cornwall Ltd.
Bus Enthusiasm in 1949 – ‘The North
Western’
Just the Ticket - 13 |
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30: May 2008
The Yellow Peril – Plymouth
Corporation’s first buses
Albert Edward Butler (Bridport &
District) – an early pioneer
New WHOTT Archive facility at Estover
Penzance VR Revival and Mousehole
Running Day |
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29: February 2008
Pangs of Nostalgia: Vehicle Purchasing
1930 - 1934
Marigold – the Orange Buses of Cornwall
Harry Potts Stokes – General Manager,
Plymouth Corporation
WHOTT’s on eBay …. Bristol VR BFJ170L
blown over
South Western Coachbuilders – Taunton –
Part II
Just the Ticket - 12 |
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28: November 2007
Bere Regis – A story waiting to be
written
The Green Linnet – Trowbridge –
Bournemouth
Unforgotten Journeys – Western National
service 83
Western National’s Camborne Depot in the
1950’s – Part II
Just the Ticket 11 |
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27: August 2007
We’re going on a Summer Holiday – North
Devon 1949 – Part II
WHOTT’s on eBay 3 - Buses on Postcards
Western National’s Camborne depot in the
1950’s – Part I
South Western Coachbuilders – Taunton –
Part I
Royal Blue Update |
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26: May 2007
We’re Going on a Summer Holiday – North
Devon 1949 – Part I
South Devon Hauliers
Bowerman’s Bedford back in the West
Country – 107GYC
Royal Blue Reflections |
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25: February 2007
Whott’s in the Archive – The Christopher
Hill story – Poole agricultural merchant
Pangs of Nostalgia: Vehicle Purchasing
1924 - 1930
South East Cornwall 2006 – the end of
Hamblys Coaches
A Favourite Route – Western National 95
Just the Ticket 8 |
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24: November 2006
Wartime Workhorse – The AEC Matador
Exeter City Transport service K Bedford
Circus to top of Pennsylvania
Devon General Service 3 - Exeter –
Tiverton – Sampford Peverell
WHOTT’s on Ebay 2 - Greenslades Tours
Ltd.
Just the Ticket - 10 |
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23: August 2006
Cornwall loves to travel with Roselyn
Coaches
Pangs of Nostalgia: bus recovery -
overturned bus 1947
First Devon & Cornwall Route 93 :
Plymouth – Dartmouth – June 2006
WHOTT members’ favourite routes – Poll
results
Just the Ticket – 9 (number 8 appears in
Issue 25) |
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22: May 2006
Delivering the Catch /2 [Suttons, Newlyn]
Pangs of Nostalgia: Long Bus Routes in
the West Country
Devon General – Living on Route 9
WHOTT members’ favourite routes |
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21: February 2006
Combwich & District Farmers - Bedfords
1966 Lorry Driver of the Year Contest [Paignton]
Poole Bus Station
WHOTT’s on eBay 1 - Embankment Motor
Co.Ltd. Plymouth
Just the Ticket - 7 |
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20: October 2005
My Early Career in the Commercial
Vehicle Industry [John Sykes]
Pangs of Nostalgia: Gas producer
trailers
Royal Blue Reflections
Western National Omnibus Co Ltd –
Engineering Department Learners’ scheme
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19: July 2005
Commercial Vehicle Chat
Pangs of Nostalgia: Royal Blue Penzance
– London 1968
New Double Decks – Western Traffic Area
independents
Exeter tramway centenary
Just the Ticket - 6 |
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18: April 2005
How to become a Bus Driver 1978 [Richard
Malyon]
Rowe Hillmaster – Reprint from
Commercial Motor 1958 Road Test
Trials and Tribulations of Royal Blue
ownership – 1250
Pangs of Nostalgia: Decimalisation of
currency
Just the Ticket - 5 |
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17: January 2005
Wincanton Transport – A West Country
Institution
Western National Omnibus Co.Ltd. – Depot
transfers Stroud, Trowbridge and Swanage
Pangs of Nostalgia: Uniforms of
‘National’ platform staff
AEC Matador RV8 – Reprint of article in
Heritage Commercials magazine
Just the Ticket – 4 |
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16: October 2004
Memories of a Western National conductor
in Dartmouth - 1953
Pangs of Nostalgia: Lancias in the West
Country
The vanishing all-British built coach
Just the Ticket - 3 |
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15: July 2004
Forwarding the Load – British Rail
Freight Forwarding
Pangs of Nostalgia: W Mumford Ltd.
Plymouth
Western National VRT 1121 – First Year
in Preservation
The culture of the Royal Blue driver
Summer Holiday … brighter skies –
Weymouth 1948 update |
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14: April 2004
North Devon Hauliers in the 1960’s
Paris Street Bus and Coach Station,
Exeter
A day in the life of a Royal Blue Driver
Tally Ho! - Kingsbridge
Just the Ticket - 2 |
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13: January 2004
Portland Stone
West Country MiniBus Revolution
David Johnson 1935 – 2001
We’re all going on a summer holiday –
Weymouth 1948
Did Royal Blue Drivers ever use the roof
luggage racks ?
Pangs of Nostalgia: Imported charabancs |
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12: October 2003
VR Life Extension : Preservation 1121
Bristol VRT
Anything, Anywhere, Anytime – Road
haulage in Devon during the 1950s and
1960s – Part 2
Minehead – Porlock Weir in Wartime
Pangs of Nostalgia: Minehead – Lynmouth
Helston – The Lizard 100 Years on.
Just the Ticket - 1 |
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11: July 2003
Life on service 42/47 Weymouth – Exeter
Delivering the Catch /1 [Suttons, Newlyn]
Retiming of Royal Blue Routes in 1962
Pangs of Nostalgia: Western National
Bedford VAM/ECW
GWR – Helston to Lizard - Anniversaries
of Man and Road Machine |
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10: April 2003
Anything, Anywhere, Anytime – Road
haulage in Devon during the 1950s and
1960s
Pangs of Nostalgia: Paul Street Bus
Station, Exeter
Bus Shape and Bristol Fashion – Memories
of Bristol Omnibus |
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9: January 2003
1836 : Restoration Progress Bristol KS6B
Holidays in the West Country 1964 – 1972
Pangs of Nostalgia: Western National
1958 rebodying exercise |
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8: October 2002
Recollections of childhood visits to
West Country bus garages
Kinsgwear’s “Banjo”
Pangs of Nostalgia: Outstations |
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7: July 2002
Jubilee Celebrations
Recalling an Exmoor coach tour
Reasons to become a bus Driver – Dave
Farmer
Pangs of Nostalgia: The Square,
Bournemouth
In Praise of Men – Royal Blue poem
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6: April 2002
West Country coach and bus body builders
Roads and Road Transport History
Conference
Pangs of Nostalgia: MAP Project May 1980
A Hitchhikers guide to the West Country
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5: January 2002
2002 Questionnaire analysis
Pangs of Nostalgia: Western National
Site 35
Joy Riding in Plymouth
Manufacturing History – The last Bristol
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4: October 2001
Island Havens No More – Guernsey Bristol
LH’s
Pangs of Nostalgia: Bus bodies after
their working life
GWR Guy Restoration – YF714
Recollections of Southern National at
Bude
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3: July 2001
Disappearing Hauliers
The Leyland Panther unleashed
Pangs of Nostalgia: The Silent Guide
Driving Memoirs – Dave Farmer
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2: April 2001
The Julian Thomas Exeter collection
Pangs of Nostalgia: Devon General low
height double-decks
Royal Blue Reliance Recovery – RU8805
A salute to the British Transport Café
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1: January 2001 – Out of Print
Museum on the Run – Leyland Panther
TDV217J
Pangs of Nostalgia: Tavistock Bus
Station
Commercial Road Transport in WHOTT
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