Aldershot and District 178 (HOU 904) Dennis Lancet J10 with Strachan body

Tim Stubbs has now owned this Dennis Lance for over twice as long as Aldershot and District! An interesting bus with a long preservation history, including once being kept in an old engine shed.

Alexander (Northern) NPB 10 is an unusual Leyland Tiger OPS2/1 with Alexander body

Postwar Tilling-Stevens were rare, Altonian's GOU 732 is a K6MA7 model with equally unusual Scottish Aviation body

CMG 30 is a Bedford WLB with Duple C20R coachwork

BEAs airport coaches were immortalised by the Matchbox model. MLL 747 is an AEC Regal 9822E with Park Royal body

Birkenhead's livery looks very smart on this Guy Arab II which was rebodied by Massey in 1957

Bolton Leyland Titan TD1 WH 1553 carrying the incorrect fleet number 53 - it was actually 54 and is now restored as such.

Bournemouth's 44 had latterly been numbered 86 and is a Leyland Tiger PS2/1 with a Burlingham full-front body. There is a picture of it in service in the Vintage Bus Miscellany collection.

Roberts built the bodywork on Colchestr 4 (OHK 432), a Daimler CVD6

County 70 is a rebodied Guy Arab II with Roe lowbridge body and is seen in Battersea Park the evening before the run.

Eastbourne AEC Regal III/East Lancs had originally been numbered 11 and was still in service at the time this picture was taken.

Eastern National's 2102 (LEV 917) started life as City's LD1 and has an Alexander body

This is a D. J. Davies bodied Dennis Lancet which started life with Forse of Cardiff, who were taken over by Western Welsh.

These Hants and Dorset open-toppers gave sterling service and were unusual in having bodies older than the chassis. The Bristol K6A chassis was new in 1944 but the Brush full-front body was built in 1938. See my early South Wales collection for a picture of one of these in service in Merthyr Tydfil two months after this rally.

A standard Bedford OB with Duple body, new to Kirby's of Bushey

London Transport built their own bodies on these diminutive rear-engined Leyland Cub RECs.

The GS class were known by Guy as the NLLVP and had ECW bodies. GS67 is one of nearly twenty of the eighty-four strong class preserved

London STL2093 which needs little introduction, leaving more time for admiration of a superb restoration job.

LUT 114 (CTF 423) is a Leyland Tiger TS8 with Roe body

LUT 202 (TF 818) carries an earlier design of Roe body

The only surviving BMMO S12 is 3750 (NHA 750), bodied by Metro-Cammell

Pretty new at the time of the event was this Oxford Bristol VR 902 (OFC 902H) with standard ECW bodywork in a non-standard livery

Provincial 35 had a long life even by Provincial's standard. A 1936 AEC Regent with Park Royal body, it saw service until the late sixties.