Reflections on Privatisation

Creative liveries flowed from the years immediately before and after deregulation in 1986. They represented a new optimism in the then newly privatised bus industry, as it symbolically swept away old greens and reds along with its old structures.

In their turn, these schemes fell to the acquisitive groups we have today.

Reflected along the glass of a First Group Wright Eclipse Gemini is a much earlier Bristol VR in post-privatisation Eastern National livery, an undertaking bought first by its management in December 1986 and subsequently sold to First Group.

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Oh Routemaster

The most popular bus in the world. No other bus evokes the same feeling as the red London Transport bus, AKA the AEC Routemaster RM. Since its introduction in 1956, the RM has become a true icon. It's time is running out, though, and all will be withdrawn from passenger service in 2005, save for two special heritage routes.

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Bristol Retrospective

The prototype Bristol LS UHY 2 from 1951 with its attractive ECW bodywork poses next to another famous Bristol built product, Concorde, at Duxford in September 2005.

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