COBHAM 99

11 APRIL 1999

This event is organised annually by the London Bus Preservation Trust. An Open Day takes place at Cobham Bus Museum and at the same time a Bus Gathering is held at the nearly former airfield at Brooklands. The two sites are linked by a special bus services generally using vintage buses.

Green Line AEC Reliance RP90 at Cobham Village

Part of the Trust's collection London General AEC Regal of 1929

AEC Regent STL441

Bournemouth Corporation Leyland Tiger

Guy GS 42 alongside RF 534

London Transport AEC Regent RT 2177

Barton low bridge Leyland Titan PS2 WAL 782

Two Country Area RTs - 214 (with top route number box) and 2084

Southdown Leyland Titan

The old and the new side by side

The painted over blind windows were to save material in the immediate post-war shortages

RTWs were the first eight foot wide London buses

East Kent Road Car Co Leyland Tiger

Leyland Titan PD3 with 'St Helens' front of King Alfred Motor Services of Winchester

A very rare Dennis Lancet

A Routemaster still in service with Stagecoach

RF 486 with a visitor from Lancashire behind

London Transport Routemaster RM1000

A delightful Dennis of 1933

Burnley, Colne & Nelson Leyland Tiger

Mercedes bendi-bus of Travel West Midlands

Thames Valley Bristol KSW

Two top box RTs

Two generations of Green Lines - RT 593 and RP21

RT 593 with pre-war side-engined Q 83

Rear view of an RT chasis

Leyland Comet coach with green RTL 1323

Morecambe & Heysham 20 an AEC Regent - a close cousin of the RT

Stockport Corporation 65 - a Leyland Titan PD3

A green RF in service between Cobham and Brooklands

RMC 1465 in Stagecoach livery at Cobham Village

Martin Longhurst