Copyright 2026 University of Southampton Toastrack Society "Toastrack" vintage bus: experience 100 years of engineering!
See the University of Southampton's 1928 vintage Dennis charabanc bus, nicknamed "Toastrack", and experience engineering from a century ago!
You will have a first-hand experience of a bus that's 100 years old, is 20 ft. by 8 ft., can seat 16 people, is convertible, and is only one of four existing in the world! If you'd like to, you will even be able to sit in the bus and have a photo taken with you as the "driver"!
The team will show you the Toastrack Society's ongoing restoration work the undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and alumni have been doing, and explain how different parts of the bus work!
The Toastrack Society has been taking care of the bus at the University of Southampton since 1958, and you'll be able to see the history of the bus as well as all the exciting places it has travelled to over the years - including as far as Venice!
You will have a first-hand experience of a bus that's 100 years old, is 20 ft. by 8 ft., can seat 16 people, is convertible, and is only one of four existing in the world! If you'd like to, you will even be able to sit in the bus and have a photo taken with you as the "driver"!
The team will show you the Toastrack Society's ongoing restoration work the undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and alumni have been doing, and explain how different parts of the bus work!
The Toastrack Society has been taking care of the bus at the University of Southampton since 1958, and you'll be able to see the history of the bus as well as all the exciting places it has travelled to over the years - including as far as Venice!
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