See also: Bus preservation in the United Kingdom
Some bus spotters may list or trace the whereabouts of surviving retired vehicles from a particular operator to purchase them for preservation purposes. The preserved buses can then be taken out to be driven either on discontinued services or through a set route for an event.4
Nathan Belofsky (3 August 2010). The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities: Pizza Police, Illicit Fishbowls, and Other Anomalies of the Law That Make Us All Unsuspecting Criminals. Penguin Publishing Group. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-101-18896-5. 978-1-101-18896-5 ↩
McCarthy, James (4 July 2015). "Forget selfies and One Direction, this teenager is a bus spotter". WalesOnline. Retrieved 30 August 2017. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/forget-selfies-listening-one-direction-9586170 ↩
Hermann H. Field; Hermann Field; Kate Field (2002). Trapped in the Cold War: The Ordeal of an American Family. Stanford University Press. p. 275. ISBN 978-0-8047-4431-7. 978-0-8047-4431-7 ↩
McLean, David (8 September 2021). "Vintage Edinburgh buses will be appearing on city streets this weekend". edinburghlive. Retrieved 26 September 2021. https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/vintage-edinburgh-buses-appearing-city-21519116 ↩