Oxford Diecast Weymann Fanfare AEC Bartons

Barton of Nottingham is another favourite amongst bus collectors with their familiar maroon, red and cream colour scheme and Barton flag and legendary Robin Hood logo decorating the sides of their vehicles.   Here, this well-known company is remembered on Oxford’s latest Weymann Fanfare AEC single deck coach, registered SNN 609.  Barton was a bus company that operated in Nottinghamshire between 1908 and 1989. The company founder Thomas Henry Barton used a Durham Churchill charabanc to start the company’s first service between Long Eaton and the Nottingham Goose Fair. The Robin Hood figure was added in the early 1960s when Barton took over Robin Hood Coaches and kept the colourful character.