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==On the Buses events==
In 2009 the SVR ran a trial event to see if there was there was an appetite for a 'busfest' type event. From 2010 the SVR has held annual 'On the Buses' events from Bewdley and Kidderminster. Typically it features visiting heritage or celebrity buses on display or offering rides between stations or around the local area, together with sales and information stands selling a range of bus related items and memorabilia.
===Prior events===
The SVR's first Kidderminster-based heritage bus-themed gala event, the "Kidderminster Historic Road/Rail Rally" was held on 12 October 1985. It was organised by [[The Erlestoke Manor Fund]] in aid of the restoration of [[7802|7802 Bradley Manor]] and featured over 70 vehicles including vintage cars and other commercial vehicles as well as buses. A vintage bus service operated at half-hourly intervals between Kidderminster and Bewdley using a 1940 Trent single deck bus and a 1950 Bedford Duple coach.<ref>SVR News 78</ref>
Similar events hosted by the EMF were then held annually at Kidderminster until 1990, becoming known as the 'Classic Vehicle Day' or 'Vintage Vehicle Day'. In 1988 the SVR ran a separate 'Classic Vehicle Day' for the first time, it having previously been combined with the autumn diesel gala.<ref>SVR News 86</ref>
In 1991 the event was organised jointly by the SVR and the Worcester Bus Preservation Society. The second such event, the 1992 'Vintage Vehicle Rally' on 11 October at Kidderminster, was attended by more than 100 classic vehicles including some seventy buses, thirty cars and a dozen commercial vehicles. Eight single decker and four double decker buses provided a shuttle between Kidderminster and Bewdley.<ref>SVR News 106</ref>
The joint SVR / Worcester Bus Preservation Society events continued in the same format until the twelfth and final 'Classic Vehicle Day' which was held on 14 October 2001. It included "...''the usual 'Bewdley Shuttle' and Green Street 'Park & Ride' services''".<ref>SVR News 139</ref> The latter service allowed the SVR public to park in a hired car park in the town and catch a classic bus to the Railway, while the classic vehicle event took place on the station car park. In early 2002 the agreement to use the town car park was withdrawn and the October 2002 event was reduced in scope, becoming a "Classic Car & Bike Day" with no buses.<ref>SVR News 142</ref> Shortly before that time, a passenger was injured after falling from the platform of a bus as it was pulling away, caused by them doing something unexpected and that they should not have been doing or even considering. This uncovered an issue about the responsibility of insurance cover for the buses and other vehicles attending the festival, which contributed to its demise<ref>[https://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1737&highlight=buses SVR Forum thread] (Retrieved 18 July 2020)</ref>.
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An SVR member is also restoring an '''Auto-Truck at [[Bridgnorth]]'''.
==See also==
*[[AEC bus model]]
