Peace Convoy

In the UK during the 1980s, the Travellers' mobile homes - generally old vans, trucks and buses (including double deckers) - were driven in convoys. The movement had faced significant opposition by the British government and mainstream media, epitomised by the authorities' attempts to prevent camps at Stonehenge, and the resultant Battle of the Beanfield, in 1985 - the largest mass civil arrest in English history.