Museums with London bus interest

• London Transport Museum
  The London Transport Museum at Covent Garden takes visitors through the history of all London's Transport. The Museum Depot is a vast store of every aspect of transport and contains all the items that cannot be displayed in the main museum
• Crich Tramway Village
  Home of the National Tramway Museum
  A working museum recreating street scenes and running trams from all over the UK including London
• East Anglia Transport Museum
  A working museum of buses, trams and trolleybuses including several London examples
• The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft
  Home to the world's largest collection of preserved trolleybuses, including London vehicles
• Great Yeldham Buses & Zero 2 Bus Museum
  Facebook page for the Newman Family's Museum in Great Yeldham, Essex, new home to many preserved London and other buses.

Museums of general transport interest

• Brooklands Museum
  The birthplace of British motorsport and British aviation and the home of Concorde
• Beamish Museum
  The living museum of the North
• Black Country Living Museum
  The world's first  industrial landscape, in West Midlands
• Oxford Bus Museum
  Over 130 years of Oxfordshire transport history
• Transport Museum, Wythall
  Major transport museum just south of Birmingham

Support organisations

• Arts Council England
  Set up in 1946, by Royal Charter, to champion and develop art and culture across the country. ACE administers Museum Accreditation which ensures museums effectively manage public resources and engage with their communities
• Historic Commercial Vehicle Society
  The largest organisation for historic lorries, buses, military and steam vehicles and which represents the movement as a whole
• National Association of Road Transport Museums
  Representing, supporting and celebrating Road Transport Heritage in the UK
• National Transport Trust ~ (est. 1965 as Transport Trust) is the only national body which promotes and encourages the preservation and restoration of Britain's transport heritage in all its forms - road, rail, wings and water
• The Bus Archive ~ The memory of the bus industry
  Dedicated to the collection and preservation of records for the road passenger transport industries – bus, coach, trolleybus and tram – and to making these freely available to the public for research and education

Bus clubs and societies

• The AEC Society
  Enthusiasts' society for AEC commercial vehicles, a company established in 1912 to build London's buses and which continued to do so until 1979.
• The Amersham & District Motorbus Society
  Enthusiasts' society which organises a number of public Running Days each year in the London surrounds featuring classic buses in service.
• LOTS - London Omnibus Traction Society
  Provides London bus enthusiasts with both current news and historical information. LOTS is now the largest society of its kind in the UK.
• London Vintage Taxi Association
  The LVTA brings together people interested in retired London-type, purpose-built taxicabs and related vehicles built on taxicab chassis.
• The Omnibus Society
  Founded in 1929, The Omnibus Society studies all aspects of the history, current operations and future development of British bus and coach services.
• The PSV Circle
  PSV Circle maintains accurate and up to date information on all aspects of bus and coach vehicles in Great Britain and Ireland, and in other parts of the world where British vehicles are in use.
• The Routemaster Association
  The organisation for Routemaster owners and enthusiasts - the largest single bus association in the world.
• The Transport Ticket Society
  For students and collectors of transport (bus, tram, rail) tickets.

Other London bus enthusiast websites

• AEC Southall
  Remembering the Associated Equipment Company Ltd, builders of London's buses from 1912 to 1979
• Chelsham Bus Garage
  A tribute to all those who worked at the London Transport/London Country bus garage at Chelsham in Surrey from 1925 to 1990
• The Classic Buses Website
  A mine of information on classic buses - nostalgia for British passenger transport vehicles from the 1920s to the 1960s, with an unashamed bias towards 'halfcabs' and including an Events Diary
• Ian's Bus Stop
  Ian Smith's highly detailed histories of most types of London buses including information on each individual bus
• London Bus Routes
  Ian Armstrong's detailed histories of individual London bus routes since the 1930s.
• London Country Bus Services
  A site dedicated to the memory of London's country bus services from 1970 until privatisation
• Pure Nostalgia
  Includes London Transport Garage Codes and London Transport Paint Shades
• Red-RF.com
  The site dedicated to London's red single-deck buses
• RLH Bus Information Centre
  Historical record and latest news of London's low-height AEC double-deckers of the early 1950s
• Toby & John's Transport History
  History of Public Transport in, South East London, and North West Kent

London bus hire for events, filming etc.

Please note: the London Bus Museum CANNOT supply buses for wedding, prom, event etc. hires.   But the following specialise in bus hire...

• Ensign Bus Company
  UK's biggest used-bus dealer with a Vintage Fleet of Classic London buses for private hire.
• The London Bus Company
  Classic London buses for private hire from the largest operator of ex-London Transport classic buses.
• Memory Lane Vintage Omnibus Services
  Classic London buses for private hire and film/tv work.
• Southcoast Motor Services
  Quality vintage buses and coaches for hire.
• Timebus Travel
  Timebus provides traditional, red London buses for hire within London and the surrounding home counties.
• Southern Transit
  West Sussex based operator hiring classic London buses, as well as open top and modern low floor vehicles.

Maintaining and restoring your London bus - parts, manuals, repairs etc.

• Routemaster Maintenance and other Bus Stuff ~ selling specialist items essential for everyone who runs, maintains or repairs London's most famous red double-decker - and for everyone who is simply fascinated with what goes on under the bonnet!
• Squirrel Preservation ~ nothing to do with pickling small rodents that steal your bird-food, but suppliers of sundry London Transport bus parts, radiator badges, vinyl and varnish-fix transfers etc.
• The Routemaster Association ~ bodywork, mechanical, electrical spares, Treadmaster flooring, tools and technical publications

The London bus in miniature

• British Model Buses
  News and information on model buses in 1/50th and 1/76 scales.
• The Little Bus Company
  Manufacturers since 1993 of resin-kit model buses and coaches.