The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum has over 150 vehicles on display and the Open Days are a very popular with families and bus enthusiasts. There is so much to see.

I visited the Aldridge Transport Museum one very windy day in December 2025. It’s a small museum, but there were vintage buses on display and other very interesting exhibits.

In 1969 I left Glasgow to work in London. I have travelled many times on Routemasters. These iconic red buses were a familiar sight in the city centre and were famous throughout the world.

Some photographs I took of AEC buses during my visits to museums, with a brief history of this iconic bus manufacturer.

Here is a table containing photographs of Leyland buses manufactured from 1922 onwards, with a brief history of this iconic bus manufacturer.

The Gardner diesel and petrol engines have powered many UK public transport buses throughout the years.

This was an experimental, propeller-driven suspended monorail invented by George Bennie from Glasgow, who claimed it would reach speeds up to 120mph (193 km/h).

When I was a boy in the 1950s, blue was my favourite colour and I loved blue buses, especially this type. I longed to have a ride on one and I hoped that one day it would happen. But it never did. We weren’t allowed to board the blue buses where I lived.

This tough-looking tow truck was on show at the recent Scottish Vintage Bus Museum’s Open Day. It looks like its Gardner 6LX engine could tow anything - but can it?

And what did it look like before?

This lovely former Guernsey Railway coach was recently on display at Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust’s Bridgeton Bus Garage in Glasgow.