Oxford Bus Museum

[1] The museum is open to visitors throughout the year on Sundays, Wednesdays and bank holiday Mondays (excluding Christmas and Boxing Day week).

In spring and summer there is a programme of events that includes free historic bus rides on selected Sundays and bank holiday Mondays.

[2] Several of the buses and coaches are in running condition and on certain days give free rides driven and crewed by museum volunteers.

[2] The rear part of the passenger accommodation is raised, with a boot beneath it large enough to carry all of the band's brass musical instruments.

Exhibits include several bare chassis, and a Dennis Loline double-decker bus that has been sectioned to show how buses used to be built.

In November 1967 the Oxford Bus Preservation Syndicate bought its first vehicle, an AEC Regal III 1949 semi-coach, registration mark NJO 703, COMS fleet number 703.

In the 1990s the museum established a collection policy which focuses on public service vehicles and smaller exhibits that operated within Oxfordshire.

The museum's first bus, a 1949 AEC Regal III of City of Oxford Motor Services
Morris Commercial FF coach with Wadham Stringer body, built in 1961 for the Morris Motors works band
City of Oxford Motor Services 1961 Dennis Loline bus at the Museum
City of Oxford Motor Services 1960 AEC Reliance at an historic vehicle rally at Oxford Parkway railway station