Hi Chris There are some really good pictures on Google images using Charabang or Charabanc as search words You will see that many have solid tyres and a canvas folding tilt to the rear, so there was at least some protection from the elements, I will bet you had a very numb bu* when you got back though <g> There is plenty of evidence that they did go quite some distance for a day trip, off early and back late, I have been on several more modern versions using a coach, generally finishing with a few beers and a sing song on the way back :-) No spy in the cab back then, the tachograph a thing of the future Unless you were quite well off and could afford your own car this might be the only way you would get to the seaside bar the trains Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > > Thanks to all who replied. > > It looks as though Weston Super Mare is the favoured place, I'll start > some > investigations there. > > Those Charabancs seem a pretty uncomfortable way to travel 100 plus miles. > Would they really have gone that far in such transport? > > My grandmother remembered a very happy day at the seaside, the first time > she had ever been there. I'm wondering if she really did travel by > charabanc. I suppose too that I have to remember her memories may be > coloured as they are tied in with the last time she saw her favourite big > brother > > Thanks again, > Chris