SIR — Many thanks to Hilary Binding for two fascinating Notes By The Way and to the people who sent in reminiscences and 'The Toastrack' photo.

World events are invariably recorded in great detail but our everyday history often gets overlooked. Such stories and photographs are ambrosia to historians, particularly when they come first hand, but all such memories need to be preserved for future generations.

The Omnibus Society was established in 1926 to study and record road passenger transport and it maintains a national archive at its libraries in Walsall, London and Coalbrookdale.

Three sites are required, such is the quantity of material we hold, although Walsall is our main depository and it is here that the timetable collection is housed.

This is recognised as being of national importance by the British Library and has information going back to pre-World War One days, and with over one million items, our photographic library is also of national significance.

But we are always after more - history does not stop, and a tiny snippet can be the final piece in a massive jig-saw.

And so a plea to all readers, if you have anything on buses or coaches - memories, photographs, ephemera - make sure it is preserved and there is no better place than in the Omnibus Society archives.

The address of the main library is The Omnibus Society, 100-102 Sandwell Street, Walsall, WS1 3EB or locally you can give me a call on 01643 821883.

Oh, did I mention the over 200,000 bus tickets in our collection?

David Grimmett,

Committee Member,

Omnibus Society Historic Research Group.