This page attempts to cover vehicles which have operated in Oxford in years past during their service days here. Oxford buses giving further service elsewhere are detailed on the Oxford Buses in Exile page, including a list of former COMS buses still in existence. If you can contribute any archive photos or information about old Oxford buses or coaches, please email them to me.
Details of the preserved Oxford buses at the Oxford Bus Museum are located on a separate page (currently under construction).
Also available are the following fleet histories:
Warning - these lists are all likely to be incomplete. Additions are welcome, especially reports of former Oxford buses still in existence.
More historical stuff is in the pipeline covering the original South Midland as well as COMS and Thames Transit.
The rest of this page shows a few archive shots from Oxford; we hope to expand this
section in the future and include the early days of Thames Transit operations too.
Back in the days when the term Park&Ride was exclusive to Oxford,
Daimler Fleetline
A more recent Park&Ride vehicle, 999 (PWL 999W) was one of the
prototype Olympians and was used as a Leyland demonstrator in Singapore. On its return to
England it was acquired by COMS, who refurbished and certified it. 999 was a regular
performer on the Pear Tree-
Another electric bus experiment came to an end in 1998 with the announcement that the County Council could no longer afford to subsidise the City Circuit service 5. The service had been a joint venture with Southern Electric, and was initially operated by the Oxford Bus Company, but the contract was later given to Stagecoach Oxford for the last few months of operation. The four vehicles used on the service from its introduction were L801-4 HJO, battery-electric Optare Metroriders painted in this special silver livery. (Photo by David Root)
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