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The aim of this website is to be the up-to-date reference point for all surviving Bristol VRBristol VR Bristol's rear-engined bus chassis, designed as competitor to Leyland Atlantean and Daimler Fleetline., Lodekka, RE and LHBristol Commercial Vehicles Light Horizontal engined single-decker bus chassis LH at 30' (9.1m); nearly 2,000 were built between 1967 and 1982 vehicles. Ultimately it is the intention to have an profile page for every one of these vehicles that were built including photos with every owner in every livery.

This web site lists all Bristol SUsingle-decker bus and single-decker coach chassis built by Bristol Commercial Vehicles 1960 to 1966; bodies built by Eastern Coach Works (ECW; some medium length chassis most full length chassis's that were built by Bristol Commercial VehiclesBristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd was a manufacturer of buses and trucks based in Bristol, England. Closed 1983. Limited and Eastern Coach WorksEastern Coach Works Ltd was a bus and railbus body building company based in Lowestoft, England. ECW closed in 1987 of Lowestoft.  It contains the history of each vehicle (where known) and will be updated with other information when known.

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.

TV&GWOT is a registered charity which was established in 2008 “to advance the education of the public in the history of public road passenger transport and in particular in the history of those companies and types of vehicles operated through the Thames Valley and Great Western road transport corridors

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

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.