Star Omnibus Company

[1] The Andrews patent bus represented an improvement in design over the vehicles previously used.

The company was based at 31-47 New Kent Road, leased from Samuel Plimsoll.

The company started to experience financial difficulties, reportedly because of the increase in electric tramway services in London.

It was sold to Car Mart, then George Mathey, and put on display at the Tyrwhitt-Drake Museum of Carriages at Maidstone.

The bus passed into the ownership of Job Master Robert Barley, then Dollond & Aitchison.

It was renovated and took part in the George Shillibeer 150th anniversary in 1979 and operated a service to London Zoo.

The Andrews family took it back to Cardiff in 1988 for restoration, and it was given to the London Bus Museum in 2007.