What would be a good headline for this picture?

Bill’s is a Palladium Autocars Ltd, Felsham Road, Putney, London, SW. In 1916 they made a 2 ton/ 11ft 6 inch wheelbase and two 4-ton/14ft wheelbase (all-up weights) models, with respectively 28, 40 and 45 HP petrol engines.

This one’s owner, Fred H. Beaumont, was running excursions with “new silent motor char-a-bancs” from The Square, Huddersfield, Yorkshire from at least April 1914 and he continued with charabanc tours through WWI until these were banned in 1916. He restarted in 1918/19 and ran to at least the mid-1920s. A five day tour of the Lake District was 10 guineas in September 1919.

In 1917 he’d advertised as Yorkshire agent for Palladium 4-ton Lorries fitted with a “40-HP British Subsidy Type Engine” for immediate delivery from his Scotgate Garage, Honley, Huddersfield premises.

If the ladies here were meeting the Antipodean Lacre men at a party somewhere near the Equator, at least four or five blokes were going to be disappointed.

Must be much later... the chap back at the third door has his mobile phone discreetly to his ear: “Jusht shpeeding home on the work’sh bush, dearesht.”

Definitely the Lacre Motor Car Company Ltd as it has their highly arched radiator with logos top and centre and their bullet-shaped wheel bearing caps too. At Letchworth, Hertfordshire, Lacre claimed to make every part of their 1 to 5 ton chassis and in 1916 they advertised that cast steel wheels were fitted onto both the front and rear (twin-wheel) axles of two-tonners and heavier, so the cast solid/spoked pneumatic combination here perhaps a local fitting. A three speed box and a solid bar back axle were fitted up to 3 tons; about a ton and a half aboard here.

Hey, got room for one more?

Headline:
Where did that other bus went with all the girls aboard?

What about:
gentleman keep your social distance please the Spanish flue is about to arrive….

or maybe Spanish flue: No need to keep your social distance gentleman in Australia
apparently the Spanish flue wasn’t a pandemic in Australia in 1918..

Perhaps their first day out after a great epidemic - off for a 'smoker'?

In England, too, this type of vehicle was called a 'charabanc' (or in running speech, 'sharrabang'). The essential element was a door (or just access) each side. for each row of seats. A hood was common but I have never seen any windows or side screens.
A heading? 'No Social Distancing!'

We got a 21 x 400 Euro fine from the police for not keeping enough social distance. Which is not fair as we are all at least 1.5 metre away from the general public.

Standing room only.
A Lacre charabanc from about 1910

It looks like a Lacre to me. Like the restored one here in New Zealand

It looks like a Albion bus or a Guy bus.

This vehicle (charabanc) is a Lacre; there were a few of these in Australia. I can't see a rego. plate to see which Australian state it was from.