
Exactly 60 years ago, our London Q1 trolleybus, 1812, had just been withdrawn and was stored at Fulwell, before being exported to Spain later in the month. In this month's edition of Trolleybus, we thank everyone who has already donated to the fund to have 1812 mechanically overhauled, before returning to Sandtoft, and this is followed by a Tony Belton feature about loading Q1s at Dagenham Dock. We also publish the second part of Tony's feature about Stage 9 of the London abandonment.
In this edition, we also pay tribute to John Whitehead, who passed away in November. John helped shape this Society in the 1960s, and achieved a huge amount in the fields of transport preservation and research.
The good news of a new trolleybus system which opened in Zhengzhou, China, last month, is the subject of a report and the cover photo, and there are plenty more positive news stories on our news pages.