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 and offers a glimpse of the future. 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. Paul Atchinson is the Artist-in-residence at Crich .

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.

Museums of general transport interest

Brooklands Museum
The birthplace of British motorsport & 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

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
Founded in 1964 to provide London bus enthusiasts with both current news and historical information, the society is now the largest of its kind in the UK.

London Vintage Taxi Association
For more than three decades, the LVTA has brought 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
Founded in 1943, the aim of the PSV Circle is to ensure that its membership is provided with accurate and up to date information on all aspects of bus and coach operation 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

The Old Bus Garage
Lots of information about classic London buses including details of a private bus collection, lists of currently-preserved London buses and access to a discussion group

Toby & John's Transport History
History of Public Transport in, South East London, and North West Kent

London bus hire

Ensign Bus Company
Ensign is the UK's biggest used-bus dealer and a major supporter of the bus preservation with a private  Bus Museum and 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.

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.