This book contains detailed fleet lists of the bus and coach vehicles operated by companies that fall into the category of 'Smaller Groups’. The operators included provide tendered and commercial services, often under a variety of trading names, but do not form part of the major groups, each of which has its own dedicated volume.
For each group, vehicles are listed in fleet number order with detail of the chassis, bodywork, seating capacity and year of build provided for each type of vehicle. Fleet number, registration number and home garage (where allocated) are provided for every individual vehicle.
At the end of each section is a second listing of the operator’s fleet by garage, and at the back of the book is a complete registration number index, containing a list of all vehicles included in the book, in registration number order.
Operators featured in this volume include:
- Centrebus (D&G and High Peak Buses)
- ComfortDelGro (Metroline, NAT, West Bus)
- HCT Group (CT Plus, HCT Yorkshire)
- RATP (London United, OLST, Bath Bus Company)
- Rotala (Diamond, Hallmark Coaches, Preston Bus)
- Tower Transit (Tower Transit, Impact)
- Transdev (Burnley & Pendle, Harrogate & District, Keighley & District, Lancashire United, Rosso, Yorkshire Coastliner)
- Wellglade (Kinchbus, Midland General, Notts & Derby, TM Buses, Trent-Barton)
- West Coast Motors (West Coast Motors, Glasgow Citybus, Border Buses)
British Bus Handbook: Smaller Groups 8th edition contains 144 pages and is well illustrated in colour throughout.