PRESERVATION UPDATE
The Ribble Vehicle Preservation Trust’s Morecambe Vintage Bus Day an 28 May was the debut rally of recantly restored Duple 300 B63F-bodied Dennis Javelin Fl35 SPX.one of three new to Hampehire Bus in March 1669 on 801 -3. nearly two years after Stagecoach bought the business from the National Bus Company.
Stagecaoch later transferred all three to Stagecoach Ribble es its 135-7 and allocated them to its White Lund depot in Morecambe where they remained until withdrawn in 2006, by which time they were numbered 27035-7 in the group-wide national scheme.
All three then passed to Northern Blue, with 136 finally going to Morton’s of Little London. Hampshire.
Six-wheel Badford at Basingstoke Festival
Among around 25 buses and coaaches at the Thornycraft Society’s Baaingdtoke Festival of Transport on 14 May was LOU 77BL, a late modal 1973 Bedford VAL70 twin-steer with Plaxton Panorama Elite III body entered by Creeta Coaches of Monkwood. Hampshire.
Remambering Southdown’s Leyland Nationals
Dual-door Southdown Leyland National 75 (YCD 75T) In East Grinstead on 27 May part way through a Remembrance Run from Brighton, returning via Uckfield to follow the routes that this 1978 example and similar …
