This handsome and quite modern looking double-decker is currently being lovingly preserved at the Aldridge Transport Museum, Walsall.

Exported to Malta in CKD form as a lorry chassis, this Mercury was instead bodied locally as a 34-seat bus by Michael Barbara. It worked Malta’s colourful pre-1973 bus network, before returning to the UK in 2015.

This well preserved single-deck ex Edinburgh Corporation Transport bus became a driver training vehicle when it reached the end of its service life in 1961.

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).