Buses of Britain Magazine

11 October 2024

"Produced by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, this series takes a snapshot back into a time when the world was a very different place. Titles alternate between the ‘colour files’ and the mainly black and white and, much older material, based around the Chris Hodge ‘Stilltime’ Collection and other mono archive collections. In both cases, the books contain 100 pages - even numbered issues are the ‘colour files’ edited by Paul Appleton, while the odd-numbered issues are the (mainly) mono editions edited by Vintage Roadscene editor, Mike Forbes. The ‘colour file’ editions are bursting with colour images, mainly from the 1950s and '60s – with some taken in the early years of the 1970s – a period when very few people were recording the bus scene in glorious colour. Fortunately, Geoff Lumb did and his collection gives us an excellent insight to the contemporary scene at that time, covering the fleets of a variety of operators from the south of England to the Scottish Highlands and from the South Wales valleys to East An