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| I was going to run the Moel Fammau Mountain Race in North Wales - but severe weather warnings and bank holiday traffic meant that I wimped out instead and went to the local Bus Museum |
It seems that severe weather is now the standard for late August bank holiday.
On arrival at the event car park I asked
"is it possible to walk from here",
"well yes, but there is a bus".
"I am happy to walk rather than wait".
"A bus will be along in a couple of minutes" ...ahh, oops, my bad - the vintage bus went three and a half sides of a square to get to the site of the
Museum and the
"30th birthday of the National Association of Road Transport Museums - buses from all over the country will provide a dazzling display with chances to grab a ride on one or two!"
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| An interesting demographic - plenty of "Under 10's" and "Over 60's" but not many in between. There seemed to be lots stalls, patronized by older gentlemen in search of 'photographs" |
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| Black and White Bus Photos @ 80p per seemed popular |
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| I thing the bonnet badges/hood ornaments were nice |
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| Fancy going on a tour to Rome in this bus - in 1950 it was booked to take a party of nuns on a Holy Year pilgrimage, if you include being winched onto and off the ferry it too 18 days there and back. |
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| The first model-T bus on (The Isle of) Lewis - delivered to the current owner's uncle (or possibly great uncle) as just a chassis and engine the cab and passenger accommodation was put together by a local fishing boat builder. Several more were constructed in the same way - but this was the first. A long trip down to Birmingham (600 miles according to Google) |
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| Our school bus was a Bluebird - took me to my first every orienteering race in spring 1975 - though I doubt if it started its life in Aberdeen. |
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| I used to work in Keynsham - so I stuck my head inside for a look at 969 EHW and there was... |
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| John Toms - senior tradesman from Somerdale Factory - with whom I worked in the 1990's |
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