Charabancs generally speaking had a canvas hood.
There was a chap from Shanklin who had his own charabanc and it didn’t have a hood. On one trip he had a party of nuns and apparently it came on to rain. One of the nuns said:
‘Driver, can you put the hood up?’  and he said – yes – and he walked to the back of the coach. He said, ‘Well, where’s it gone? What have you done with it?’
They didn’t know and he said, ‘Well, it was on there when we left’.
Patrick Hall b 1945