SELNEC PRESERVATION SOCIETY PUBLICITY

As the SELNEC Preservation Society's fleet of vehicles has grown over the years since our first acquisition of 7206 in January 1987, we have received quite a helpful amount of publicity in a number of transport related publications, mainly in the early days about our acquisitions, but as time has gone on, on rectifications as well as further acquisitions.

Although we have appeared in numerous transport related publications on a number of occasions, particularly after launching the SELNEC Preservation Society Membership Scheme on 1st September 1996, where we are often given a quarter page or half page exposure on a number of our acquisitions or rectifications, the three most major aspects of publicity commenced with an article in the March 1997 edition of Buses Magazine. In this there was a three page article on the Society and the 15 vehicles we had had the time depicting; five colour and two black and white photographs, which appeared between pages 36 and 38.

Thereafter, when our rectification of EX1 had been concluded it appeared resplendent on the front cover of Volume 2, No. 11 - March 2000 edition of Bus & Coach Preservation, along with a five page article between pages 4 and 8 depicting some 22 photographs (21 of which were in colour) cataloguing the vehicle from new, in operation, and through all the various stages of our rectification.

The third major element of exposure was in the same publication: Bus & Coach Preservation, in the Volume 3, No. 2 - June 2000 edition, where there appeared an article on the Society itself in general. This commenced on page 38 under the heading: 'Clubbing', which incorporated representation of our headed paper, six colour photographs and three black and white photographs and commenced with the following lines:

"SELNEC Society - setting standards. How has the SELNEC Preservation Society achieved so much in building up a unique collection of post half cab era Manchester area buses? The answer could be put in one word, as Nick Larkin reports, tenacity. The one word which really does sum up how one of the greatest ever achievements by a bus preservation group has come about."

The fourth major area of exposure was in the special publication: Buses Focus, No. 16 of September 2000, in which our preserved Leyland Olympian 1451, Greater Manchester's first and only prototype Olympian, was heavily featured. This was a special article depicting the Olympian style vehicle over 20 years, between the very first 'W' reg Olympians from 1980, from which the choice had been made of 1451 (NRJ 568W) 'W' suffix from the 1980 Commercial Vehicle Motor Show, and the very last Olympian, Yorkshire Coastliner 437 (W437 CWX) delivered in the year 2000, being 'W' prefix.

The two of them were both road tested and compared with each other and in fact the road test took place on 1451 during our attendance at the Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally from the Museum of Transport to Heaton Park on Sunday 3rd September 2000, which it attended along with 7232, EX1, 8001 and 8765.

Although Yorkshire Coastliner 437 appears on the cover of this publication, the article on the Olympians, incorporating 1451, appears between pages 36 and 41, with a total of seven photographs of 1451 from new, whilst in service   and in our ownership, albeit in MK Metro yellow and blue colours.

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