Buses is a monthly magazine published in the United Kingdom that primarily focuses on the British bus and coach industry. Founded in 1949, the magazine was originally published by Ian Allan Publishing, however from March 2012 onwards, it has been published by Key Publishing after their takeover of the former. The current editor is James Day and is published on the third Thursday of each month. The magazine is accompanied by a yearbook published in August every year for the next year. Since 2014, the publisher operates annual show every August called 'Buses Festival' at the British Motor Museum in Gaydon, Warwickshire. Buses Festival is one of the largest shows for bus enthusiasts to see modern and classic vehicles on display and for traders to sell bus models, literature, photos and bus accessories.

History

Buses was published as Buses Illustrated by Ian Allan Publishing from 1949 until 1968. The magazine started publishing in its usual monthly cycle from January 1969. On 19 July 1968, coinciding with the passage of the Transport Act 1968, the was relaunched as simply Buses following the absorption of sister monthly publication Passenger Transport, which had been acquired from publisher Barrow's earlier in the decade. A sister magazine, Buses Focus, featured more in-depth articles, but was dropped after a rationalisation of the bus industry and for publishing cost reasons.

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