A 90-year-old widow is set to be reunited with her late husband’s globe-trotting bus 60 years after it embarked on a 12,000m tour of the US and Canada.

Audrey Dennis has waited years for her husband Albert’s Routemaster bus to be restored.

Her dream will finally come true at Wisley airfield on Sunday, April 29, when London Bus Museum, based at Brooklands, holds its 39th spring gathering for buses and coaches.

The bus, an AEC Regent type numbered RT2775, was a familiar sight on London’s streets from the 1940s to the 1970s and was one of three chosen to represent the UK on a come to Britain campaign organised by the British Travel and Holidays Association.

After being shipped across the Atlantic in March 1952, the buses travelled to 56 towns and cities in 28 US states, from New York in the east to San Francisco in the west, and on to 26 towns and cities in Canada.

The buses accommodated 82,000 passengers throughout the tour and were met by civic dignitaries and large welcoming crowds at some of their destinations.

RT2775 is the only survivor of the three as the other two were scrapped and the bus museum acquired it for preservation, which has been carried out by volunteers.

See it for yourself at Wisley airfield from 10am.

Admission is £10 for adults with up to two accompanying children, aged 16 and under, admitted free.