People’s
Provincial Fleet List (Provincial Publication No 1)
This well researched and illustrated Provincial
Publication will be the next A4 book to be released in
this series. It covers all the details of each bus which
appeared in the People’s Provincial fleet from the
beginnings to the end of operations. Carefully
researched by a team of society members – Roy Jetten,
Stephen Didymus and Mal Saltmarsh – this will be a
comprehensive record of all that is known today.
Excellent photographs illustrate each vehicle type and
each bus has a complete record from its acquisition to
its withdrawal from the fleet plus subsequent ownership
where known. It has taken many years to compile and the
authors would like to publish it as part of the
Provincial range. There are over one hundred pages of
interesting facts which have been double checked by
Robert Smith who keeps prolific records of all local bus
operators. This new book will be launched at the
rally at a special price of £10 on the day only {Normal
price will be £12}.
Buses
cannot smile! (Provincial Paper No 6)
Another in the Provincial Papers series, this A5 book
tells the story of Fred York’s photographic biography
from his early days in Birmingham to the operations of
Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Company. Fred is a well known
member of the society. What may not be so well known is
his wide ranging hobby of photographing buses in
Singapore, Malta and UK over several decades. Bearing in
mind the demand for Fred’s atmospheric photographs, a
careful selection has been incorporated to show his own
biography from trams in the Midlands to the unique Deutz
double deckers in Gosport and Fareham. This new
book will be launched at the rally at a special price of
£5 on the day only {Normal price will be £6.50}.
