At the moment, Lancashire United 202 is in our upper display hall, part of the display of pre-war buses. But later today, thanks to our friends from the Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum, it’ll be outside giving a few demonstration runs (not carrying passengers)

For this week's #SaturdayShowoff , it has to be North Western 432 - new in 1939, it'll be giving limited free rides this weekend at our #200YearsOfBuses event, Omnibus - celebrating the period 1824 to 1940. If you want to ride on a pre-war bus, come along! motgm.uk/events-themed.…

Good morning! We’re all ready to go with our ‘Omnibus’ event this weekend, celebrating #200YearsOfBuses . The event will feature free bus rides, even featuring a prewar bus or two, and it’s on today and tomorrow 10 am to 4.30 pm.

Sorry for all the posts today! But we just had to share the news that not only will this lovely 1934 Leyland ‘Lion’ be at our event, but it’ll do a few runs on one of our free heritage bus services. If you want to come down, our event is on 10am to 4.30pm both days this weekend.

Now, isn’t THAT a sight for sore eyes…? Thank you to our lovely friends at Heaton Park Tramway #200YearsOfBuses

It’s nearly time… our lovely friends from Heaton Park Tramway and Bury TransportMuseum are helping to load this amazing horse tram so it can attend our #200YearsOfBuses event this weekend. If you want to see it, we’ll be open 10 am to 4.30 pm tomorrow and Sunday.

Nice article on our involvement in celebrating the bicentenary of buses. #200YearsOfBuses

Here's our list of buses planned for our free bus services this weekend. Thanks to the owners and volunteers who've put in hours in preparation.

North Western 224, 432, 270
Manchester 2150
Lancashire United 27, 97
Bolton 77

...and one more - and we'll say later what that is 😉

Coinciding with the bicentenary of Britain's buses, which started in Salford in 1824, we've published this lovely book ‘West of the Irwell' about the quirky, even tetchy history of Salford's buses. It's on sale from our online shop at motgmshop.uk/product-page/w… for just £25 + P&P.

A busy, bus-y scene! 🚌

Any ideas where and when today's #ThrowbackThursday was taken?

Thanks as always to @motgm for supplying the pics! 📷

We're going a long way back for this week's #ThrowbackThursday - to the 1890s. But this is recognisably Piccadilly Gardens and on the right you can see horse trams and buses. We hope to bring the last two of these together again this weekend at our 'Omnibus' event.

Ooh, now, what's this we see on our CCTV arriving at the museum...? #200YearsOfBuses

Unfortunately, our friends at the Ribble Vehicle Preservation Trust have told us that they're unable to bring their two re-wat Leyland buses to our 'Omnibus' event this weekend - both of these very old buses aren't fit to make the journey, despite best efforts.

We're excited, as next weekend is the first of our events to mark #200YearsOfBuses - it's 200 years since the UK's first bus service ran, in Salford. On Sat/Sun next week we'll run 'Omnibus', celebrating buses up to 1940. Ashton 8 here won't be giving rides, but it'll be on show.

Our #SaturdayShowoff brings our collection to you and maybe tempts you to visit. This week it's one of the few buses in our collection that isn't restored, #Oldham 368. Its time will come.

If you'd like to visit our collection of buses, details are at motgm.uk