SHOPPERS were able to travel back in time when a vintage mini-coach made a day trip to Bromsgrove.

People in the town centre checked out the replica of an 1926 eight-seater vehicle when it made a scheduled stop outside Co-op Travel, in Mill Lane precinct, on Monday.

Passers-by were asked a quiz question and for a donation to help the firm's Make A Wish charity.

The vintage vehicle is owned by Johnson's Coaches, based in Henley-in-Arden.

"Our firm started in 1909 so we would have used coaches similar to this," said the company's sales manager Eddie McDougall.

"The originals have long since rusted away but eight of these replica coaches were built by a firm in Belfast and they're used for promotion work by companies around the country.

"They have a very flat windscreen and a ladder at the back so the luggage could be taken up and put on the roof."