Cornwall Bus Preservation Society

The Group was formed in 1991 at the old Laira Depot in Plymouth.

The aim of the Group is to preserve the Western National name and the much loved West Country’s Green Buses.

The National Association of Road Transport Museums (NARTM) is the representative body for organisations or individuals with collections of historic buses and coaches, goods vehicles and other large road vehicles who wish to make their collections accessible to the public.  NARTM represents the large majority of UK road transport collections and now has some 90 members with more than 3000 historic vehicles in their collections.

The WHOTTThe West Country Historic Omnibus & Transport Trust vision is to establish a museum devoted to the history and development of commercial and public road transport in the region.  We are rigorously searching for a site that offers the best potential and is easily accessible.  Meanwhile our LeylandLeyland Bus was a British bus manufacturer. It emerged from the Rover Group (formerly British Leyland) as a management buyout of the bus business. It was subsequently acquired by Volvo Buses in 1988 and the name finally disappeared in 1993 Panther saloon acts as our mobile museum, offering a wide range of information about the WHOTT as an organisation, as well as staging exhibitions.  The Trust has eighteen vehicles in its care, covering a period 1938 to 1994, including tradition Read more