- Battle bus
A battle bus is a luxury coach used by
reporter s and political commentators to follow apolitician , usually aparty leader , to their speeches and other engagements during ageneral election campaign, especially in theUnited Kingdom .History
Battle buses were first seen in the late 1970s, before which reporters followed party leaders by car. cite web | last = Wheeler | first = Brian | publisher = BBC | date = 2004-12-22 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4117117.stm | title = "Last stop for the battle bus?" |accessdate = 2007-05-11 ] The battle bus was a significant feature of the 1987 UK general election as
David Owen andDavid Steel of theSDP-Liberal Alliance each crisscrossed the country in matching battle buses,cite web | publisher = BBC | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/election97/background/pastelec/ge87.htm | title = "1987 General Election" | accessdate = 2007-05-11 ] each painted bright yellow.cite web | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/politics97/background/pastelec/87alli.jpg| title = "1987 General Election" | accessdate = 2007-05-11 ]By 1992, the journalistic trail had taken to the air with the introduction of the battle plane.
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