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I worked on the “Road Car” and remember all the drivers and the company fondly.
The bus you see 2803 was a Leyland National a superb vehicle to drive, the older vehicles on the fleet had character but these had heaters……….
The story goes that these buses were an amalgamation of ideas between what was then the “National bus company” and Leyland vehicles.
Happy days!!
Len Mitten? Mr Hawksworth! The driver with the Clarke Gable look! Mr Cummings? All good blojkes! never remember you on there tho’…………………………….Erm? thinking back I might have a few stories to tell! haha! Well dont be surprised if you see one or two laffs! I dunno? smat like you always had to have a “two peddler” because you couldnt manage a none syncro box! Erghh! used to wear yer cap @ a jaunty angle! & in the pub at night!…..Better than the baseball cap with homemade AEC patch on tho’ & insted of makin that stupid ” Airhorn Wha wha” noise when you entered a pub! It went to “Ding Ding” drove me crackers! mind you I was soon out the door! good warning for me! Wah Wah oh my God! Sup up & gone mate! 1st Ding Ding caught me out tho’
You don’t remember me because you were too busy hiding from me, as for going into a pub with my uniform on …….never.
I see you still keep your one good eye on this site just to see what I’m up to.
I seem to remember that it was always Service no 31 to Knipton, When you consider that there was an hourly service to Leicester shared by roadcar and Midland Red till late at night, plus Skinners buses going out to Saltby, the area out Harlaxton way was really well served back in the day.
@Branston Magpie says:
That was amazin service really! Home in East Anglia hardly any Bus services for the villages now! perhaps once twice a week! & constantly being told about use Public transport! Bus & pubic transport not bad in Europe on the whole! & not getting political! because most of our losses of such services has been whilst up too our necks of being in Europe! sick of it? & hearing about it! being questioned about it by Natives of where ever I am! No body understands what the hell is going on! & old uneducated fella like me not a clue! Good reminder tho’ @Branston Magpie says: certainly changed!
Admit it Greeves you would just love to drive one of these, but you can’t and that makes you a sad man. Just ask me what is it like having a HGV class one and an all types PSV licence. Before you tell me I’ve used the old names to describe the licence categories to make it easier.
Still got mine all of them! Only thing that ran out was ADR! It lasts 5 years! + Mobile crane ! F\lift shovels ! Plant tickets! Had to have them for Perkins & my job! Not got PSV tho! Oh & 310 hrs playing “Biggles” as you called it! Motorcycle, and for my HGV 1 I had to pass a test in 1982 in Petrboro’not Grandfather’s rights ! And CPC and digital ” tachos” are a nitemare! Or was for me! Don’t wanna go on anymore! Should have left you stewing that you got one on me hee’hee’well you have got one over me you been retired or on benefits for years! Easy life! & In the yard still got LHD F89 …….. Why LHD in UK? Eh? ……But over there now 1973! Going to South Africa! With its 12litre & over 300bhp &600’k on the clock’which was a beast in the day and still is in my eyes! But not fetching it over here so had to go! You win again I spose tho! Hee he’ love to drive a Leyland Leopard! ……well wouldnt mind actually! Wouldn’t tell anyone tho’ hee hee!
Been retired and or on benefits that’s a laugh, like you I still work keep rattling out the CPCs or an ADR course keeps the mind active otherwise I might be in a home for the terminally muddled.
Had my day driving Layland Leopards or National Express some good but most bad overworked vehicles.
F89 takes me back good motor in the day better than our offerings at the time. Me I used to like anything with an Eaton Twin Splitter.