Corgi CC26106 Barton Centenary RTL

Bartons’ were for many years of the 20th century Britain’s largest independent bus operators. The business pioneered both British and Continental Coach Holidays with its popular ‘Road Cruises’ and the Company also ran an extensive ‘Express Service’ network of coaches throughout Britain. The business was founded in 1908 near Nottingham by one of the great innovators and characters of the passenger transport industry, Thomas Henry Barton O.B.E., and his family. There were long associations with certain chassis manufacturers, most notably Daimler, followed by Lancia and then Leyland. But Barton’s remain famous for their reputation for the superb re-engineering of a very wide range of vehicles (including re-bodying) to suit their own individual requirements.