The red double decker buses, modelled on the Routemaster buses of London, are one of the defining characteristics of the city.
Strathtay Scottish purchased a number of ex-London Transport Routemaster buses to counter the competition, which also used a number of the same vehicle type on city services in Perth.
The London Transport Routemaster incorporated internal panels riveted to the frames which took most of the structure's shear load.
In addition, there was a flyering campaign during the band's performance at Regent Street festival, and also an old Routemaster bus was recommissioned and redecorated to match the vehicle on the album cover.
Travis Elborough is the author of The Bus We Loved: London's Affair With the Routemaster (Granta Books, 2005), The Long-Player Goodbye: The Album From vinyl To iPod And Back Again (Sceptre 2008) and Wish You Were Here - England on Sea (Sceptre 2010).
During his Managing Directorship of PRV the Routemaster, Bridgemaster and Monocoach integral designs were produced as well as body-on-chassis models and key members of staff were recruited from Bristol Commercial Vehicles and Eastern Coach Works.
It had been purchased by a number of bus operators in the United Kingdom outside London (London Transport bought the Routemaster during that period).
The design was suitable for driver-only operation which helped bus operators to relieve the problems of labour shortages and costs, and became one of the alternatives to the traditional British double-deck buses (operated by a driver and conductor, such as the London Routemaster or Bristol Lodekka), as British legislation prevented driver-only operation of double-deck buses until the late 1960s.
In 1975, when plans were under way to introduce the London Transport Silver Jubilee Bus fleet, the then Sales Manager of London Transport Advertising, Geoffrey Holliman, proposed to the Chairman of LTE, Kenneth Robinson, that the Fleet line should be renamed the Jubilee line.
The range of vehicles was designed to be complementary to a model railway set, and for instance included a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, a Humber Super Snipe, a Routemaster bus, a Shell petrol tanker and a towtruck.
The museum is operated by the London Bus Preservation Trust and exhibits around thirty-five examples (from its forty+ collection) of London buses, coaches and ancillary vehicles covering 100 years of development of the bus in London including Victorian-era horse-buses, 1920s open-top buses, streamlined 1930s designs and through the Second World War to the mass-standardisation of the 1950s, the Routemasters of the 1960s and the rear-engined buses of the 1970s.
On 11 November 2013, a Routemaster owned by Metroline was used on the route as part of The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.