Coventry Buses - past and present

So if some poor individual who is classed as 'obese' is refused entry onto a bus (because of the weight issue) can he/she sue?

Given the way "obese" is defined - it would potentially bar a lot of the drivers from boarding the bus I drove for Arriva for a number of years and I recall a customer managing to spill a tin of paint on the floor of the single decker that was just about to depart from the city centre (not Coventry) - people were still trying to board the bus with the floor coated in bright purple paint

20 route extension to Nuneaton from 27th January 2020 (NX Coventry) Peter.

Early heads-up for this diary date 12 Sept 2020: National Express Coventry Open Day with 4 ex-Coventry Transport vehicles recreating CCT Routes during the day. Call 07889-214236 for vehicle running details.

Services changes due to Coronavirus Revised services on NX Coventry from Wednesday 25th March. (mostly Saturday service). Revised services on NX West Midlands (inc X1 service) from Wednesday 25th March. (all routes served at reduced frequency). Revised services on Stagecoach from Monday 30th March. Revised service on Travel De Courcey from Monday 23rd March (60/61 hourley). Johnsons - Probably revising timetable from Wednesday 25th March. Concessionary passes are valid from start of services Monday-Friday until further notice. Regards, Peter.

Island cafe, Did you ever find a photo of one of those gas trailers of the war, think there were only a handful?

This picture is from the Daily Mirror 1939. It is in Nottingham

Thank you, Annewiggy. Afraid not, believe this is some sort of baggage transport vehicle. The gas tanks did not appear till about 42 time. You remember those old water barrels of steel, round and corrugated? Well, like those, on like motor-cycle wheels, not quite the width of the bus, and only half as tall, but a gas-tank. How they converted I have no idea.

The picture I posted was also a gas trailer. Article that went with it.

Annewiggy, Brilliant, now we know how, I wondered about that vehicle carrying gas in a gas bag in wartime. So, did Coventry have gas engine buses? Or did I see them in some other town, with reserve gas in metal container?

Kaga. Like this?

MR, thanks and yes bang on. Wartime?

1941 I believe.

It would seem that the trailer produced its own gas from wood, there were also coal gas conversions and charcoal as well as gas bags. Just spent a nice hour finding out about them. A few more hours to kill then back to bed to look forward to another day, hey ho but it is nice to know when you wake up you are still here

On MR pic of the trailer it has a GF reg which I think is Hampshire, can anyone recognise where it was taken? That tower is very prominent.