| The boot lid advert was a strong method of telling drivers how much they could have saved if they'd let the coach take them to their destinations. But bus stops, shop windows and a myriad of other adverts helped get the message across that any National Express coach was going to be good quality, and low cost. Not that it always was, of course, in the Seventies and Eighties. |
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"Don't be a Wallaby - buy a Boomerang" - somehow the message worked, but City of Oxford 12 (RFC 12T) seems more concerned with getting into Sheffield bus station than absorbing the message 640x421 109.1477C_430.jpg 1984-12-07 00:00:00 |
204 (BDF 204Y) 640x421 122.2113_513.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
214 (XDG 214S) 640x423 113.1030C_514.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
214 (XDG 214S) 640x402 113.1031C_514.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
214 (XDG 214S) 452x480 113.1029C_514.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
![Always present a smart appearance when playing bowls - and where better to be dressed for the occasion than on Plymouth Ho! A promotional picture as part of the Western Venturer service 700 (Penzance - Plymouth - Bristol - London) promotions that showed the value of interchanges [Alan O. Watkins Colln]](http://thumbs.fotopic.net/450021000514.jpg)
Always present a smart appearance when playing bowls - and where better to be dressed for the occasion than on Plymouth Ho! A promotional picture as part of the Western Venturer service 700 (Penzance - Plymouth - Bristol - London) promotions that showed the value of interchanges [Alan O. Watkins Colln] 640x415 Alan.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
Beeper the Frog - click open for more information 640x421 beep1_214.jpg 2000-01-01 00:00:00 |
Black & White Motorways staff on a social club outing 316x480 460.0036S_B34.jpg 2009-09-26 17:32:00 |
Bristol bus station display promoting the new Cheltenham - Glasgow connecting service 581x480 460.0038S_B34.jpg 2009-09-29 15:39:00 |
Bristol bus station display promoting the new Cheltenham - Glasgow connecting service 640x416 460.0039S_B34.jpg 2009-09-29 15:40:00 |
Caledonian Express - stop being identified 640x421 scan0008C_728.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
Cork bus station publicity for the new Supabus service to Birmingham 316x480 scan0014.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
DAE 509K with Midlands area manager, Bob Shaddick. 640x421 052.740C_547.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
DAE 509K with Tony McKenna 640x408 052.735C_547.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
Devon General 1407 640x436 204.163C_719.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
Driver Wally Amos on his annual publicity tour of the South West, delivering leaflets for Associated motorways and showing off the latest of the Black & White fleet 640x472 AmosZ.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
East Yorkshire 4 (GRH 4Y) 640x423 122.780C_723.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
Eastern Counties Leyland Leopard/Duple Dominant in Bristol with Bristol - Peterborough advertising 640x421 109.849C_344.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
![Exchanging views after the 25th anniversary of the Birmingham - London service had been restaged by National Express with a BMMO CM6 [Alan O. Watkins Colln]](http://thumbs.fotopic.net/123021000503.jpg)
Exchanging views after the 25th anniversary of the Birmingham - London service had been restaged by National Express with a BMMO CM6 [Alan O. Watkins Colln] 637x480 069.065Z.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
Flagging hobby 640x421 scan0004_727.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
HRN 255G and UHY 634H 640x414 052.717C_516.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
![London Country BTL 8 (C208 PPE) wearing Sesame Travel livery [Alan O. Watkins Colln]](http://thumbs.fotopic.net/505021000269.jpg)
London Country BTL 8 (C208 PPE) wearing Sesame Travel livery [Alan O. Watkins Colln] 640x398 c208Z.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
London Country TPL 59 discovers you could not escape National express advertising in the Eighties 640x421 122.344C_430.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
![Lord Shepherd, chairman of the NBC, with Transport Minister, Norman Fowler, taking an illegal stint at the wheel of a National Express [Alan O. Watkins Colln]](http://thumbs.fotopic.net/463021000514.jpg)
Lord Shepherd, chairman of the NBC, with Transport Minister, Norman Fowler, taking an illegal stint at the wheel of a National Express [Alan O. Watkins Colln] 637x480 109.475Z.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
Manchester Airport bus stop publicity - 1990 319x480 scan0022_701.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
![Midland Red CM6, 5656 (BHA 656C) arrives in Victoria after the 25th anniversary run of the Birmingham - London motorway service [Alan O. Watkins Colln]](http://thumbs.fotopic.net/121021000503.jpg)
Midland Red CM6, 5656 (BHA 656C) arrives in Victoria after the 25th anniversary run of the Birmingham - London motorway service [Alan O. Watkins Colln] 363x480 069.064Z.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
Miss National Express 333x480 440.0337S_B34.jpg 2009-09-26 16:56:00 |
![National Travel South West 158 (NDF 158P) with false destination for French promotion displaying 774 Cheltenham. It was pictured before entering service, and was one of the last AEC Reliances to be built, a rare 36-foot model. [Alan O. Watkins Colln]](http://thumbs.fotopic.net/444021000514.jpg)
National Travel South West 158 (NDF 158P) with false destination for French promotion displaying 774 Cheltenham. It was pictured before entering service, and was one of the last AEC Reliances to be built, a rare 36-foot model. [Alan O. Watkins Colln] 640x442 158Z.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
![National Travel South West 198 (AFH 198T) on the Snow White/Disney promotional tour [Alan O. Watkins Colln]](http://thumbs.fotopic.net/950021000225.jpg)
National Travel South West 198 (AFH 198T) on the Snow White/Disney promotional tour [Alan O. Watkins Colln] 640x445 113.237CZ.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
National Travel South West 198 (AFH 198T) with Snow White's dwarfs giving the police a hard time during their three week national tour 640x465 113.039_.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
Publicity map for new service 648 Caernarfon - Cheltenham "starting May 18" 309x480 460.0037S_B34.jpg 2009-09-26 11:23:00 |
Putting the Caledonian Express sign on a shelter in the Highlands 316x480 scan0006C_727.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
Shamrock & Rambler 3115 and an earlier coach... 640x425 204.054C_463.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
SWT 120 (RCY 120Y) picks up guests at Neath bus station for the inaugural run of the West Wales Rapide service to London. 640x421 scan0009C_393.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
The Price if Right - National Express advertising 640x412 109.3081Cb_506.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
UC 218 (A218 VWO) sporting School Travel Service livery 640x410 122.2150S_B32.jpg 1989-10-01 00:00:00 |
UC1173 (BUH 221V) at Abwertillery during the sponsorship of the Women's World Snooker Championship 640x406 113.116Cvar_364.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
Using a traditional Midland Red bus stop at broadway, Worcestershire 317x480 scan0011C_333.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
VC 12 (FH06 EAX) 640x480 157.0634J.JPG 2008-07-21 19:08:00 |
Wessex 293 during the Women's Snooker World Championships 640x410 113.115C_365.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
Wessex 50 (ADD 50Y) 640x466 201.011Z.jpg 1999-11-30 00:00:00 |
