Famous Buses

Films Featuring Buses

*The Magic School Bus (1994)- Scholastic's The Magic School Bus - USA (complete title)
*Get on the Bus (1996)
*Che si shi si (2001)- aka "Bus 44" - (English title)
*Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005) (TV)
*The Bus Stops Here (2003)
*The Wayward Bus (1957)
*Bus Rider's Union (1999) Starring Della Bonna with additional material by Tom Cantrell
*The Bus Stop Movie (1999) – directed by Chris Moran
*The Runaway Bus (1954)
*Fatty Drives the Bus (1999) directed by Mick Napier. Starring Robert Waiting.
*500 Bus Stops(1997) (mini)
*Girls on the Bus (2006) written by Don Todd
*Beauty and the Bus (1933)
*Hobbies: Model Bus Collector (2002) starring Pete Avery
* (1988)

Books Featuring Buses

*School Bus by Donald Crews
*Wheels on the Bus (Read and Share) by Andy Cooke (Paperback - Sep 1, 1999)
*The Christmas Bus by Melody Carlson (Hardcover - Oct 1, 2006)
*Love Bus Stop (Yaoi) by Ritsu Natsumizu (Paperback - Oct 24, 2007)
*Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God by Etgar Keret (Paperback - April 30, 2004)
*The Naked Bus Driver by Marshall B., Jr. Allen (Paperback - May 15, 2005)

Bus Museums and Collections

*The Amersham & District Motorbus Society website.
*The Aston Manor Road Transport Museum in Birmingham.
*The Cambridge Omnibus Society by Richard Haughey.
*The Cardiff Transport Preservation Group, preserving the buses of South Wales.
*The Castle Point Transport Museum, Canvey Island, Essex.
*The Coventry Transport Museum.
*The Crosville Enthusiasts Club.
*The Cumbria Omnibus Group is restoring an ex Cumberland Bristol MW.
*The East Anglia Transport Museum at Carlton Colville, near Lowestoft.
*Eastern National Leyland Titan LEV 917 is owned by the Springhill Vehicle Preservation Group.
*Eastern Counties buses at the Eastern Transport Collection, Norwich.
*The East Sussex Omnibus Society site with great Eastbourne and Southdown images.
*"FoKAB", the well-known Friends of King Alfred Buses have a fine website.
*The Hertfordshire Vehicle Preservation Group website.
*The Historic Commercial Vehicle Association Tempe Museum, Sydney, Australia.
*The Historic Commercial Vehicle Society .
*The Hull & Country Bus Preservation Group.
*The Lancashire United Transport Society website with a complete fleet list.
*The Lancastrian Transport Trust has an attractive site about them and their vehicles.
*The Leyland Society.
*Lincolnshire Vintage Vehicle Society have a fine collection of buses.
*London Bus Preservation Trust (Cobham) by Nick Abbott.
*London Omnibus Traction Society ('LOTS') have a site about their organisation.
*The Wealdstone & District Home Page with details of their preserved
*The Merseyside Transport Trust (previously the Mersey & Calder Bus Preservation Group).
*The National Association of Road Transport Museums lists museums all over the UK.
*Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre has an extensive regional bus collection.
*Oldham 163 Preservation Group and their Oldham Atlantean.
*The Omnibus Society, founded in 1929.
*The Plymouth & District Coaches collection of classic vehicles.
*The City of Portsmouth Preserved Transport Depot at Portchester.
*Routemaster Operators & Owners Association by Phil Willson.
*The Dutch Routemaster Society.
*A comprehensive site about the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum, by Jim Crichton.
*Sheffield Bus Museum Trust website by Neil Worthington.
*The Southdown Enthusiasts Club was founded in 1954.
*The Swindon Vintage Omnibus Society has preserved a Swindon Daimler and a Bristol RESL.
*Teesside buses preserved by The 500 Group, with histories of local The Transport Ticket Society Website has an excellent coverage of this specialist subject.
*The National Transport Museum of Ireland has a large collection of Irish vehicles.
*The Transport Enthusiasts Club of Ireland website has information about preserved Irish Buses.
*The Transport Yorkshire Preservation Group and their vehicles, with a list of all W.Yorkshire PTE survivors.
*The Trojan Museum Trust, with a history of the company.
*The West of England Transport Collection at Winkleigh, Devon. An excellent site.
*The Wigan Transport Society has an interest in vehicles with a Lancashire connection.
*The Wirral Transport Museum website (Wallasey, Birkenhead, Chester etc.).
*The Worcester Bus Preservation Society and their Midland Red vehicles.
*The 680 Preservation Group website, about their restoration of a Tyne & Wear Atlantean.
*The 910 Preservation Group have a Potteries Atlantean and other vehicles.

Legendary/mythical Buses

*In Louis Duvall's modern interpretation of the book of Myths and Legends, on Judgement Day the Devil took the lost souls to hell in an old stagecoach/trolley bus.
*In The Simpsons, a regular character, Otto Mann is the bus driver, who takes Bart and Lisa to school and back. His motto is "Never Crash the Bus".
*In the Speed (2005),starring Keanu Reeves, the bus took on legendary status, and became a popular spotting icon among moquettes in the US.
*A popular folk tale tells of a bus which picks up people and takes them to their favourite destinations. The FIT Bus (abbreviated from the Gaelic fiteáilte, meaning healthy)

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