• The London Omnibus Traction Society was the subject of a feature in the Sunday Correspondent colour supplement last week.
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Readers who saw the piece might be justified in thinking that an otherwise respectable Sunday newspaper was not taking the good gentleman of LOTS entirely seriously.
Picture the scene at a meeting in Conway Hall, London, "Members . . divide into little groups and swap bus information excitedly, like children in a playground." A member is reported as saying, LOTS attracts "lots of loonies", while another adds: "All the loonies sit at the front and at the end they ask questions very loudly."
The guest speaker, a director of a North London PSV operation, is said to call the enthusiasts "hairies" — on account of their tweed jackets — and suspects them of "making waistcoats out of the busseat upholstering material".
What could be more innocent than grown men sharing a passionate — although