Kilted Fridays Adventures

[Roderick Powell]

Nice post! I thought First Bus had taken all the Bristol VRs out of service by now? where I live I've travelled on an aging Abellio London Dart single decker in my Dress Gordon kilt, and had little reactions from other passengers. was on call for work, so no kilted Friday for me, sadly. Kilts and server rooms don't mix, lots of bending and picking things up or repairing them also a little chilly

thecompanyguy1300231 Have been informed Cesenatowers and his wife are into buses. think they in Scotland.
We have all the old rubbish busses down on South Cornwall routes. This year we have been issued with Re- paint blue buses.
Probably six year base overhaul complete rebuild. I am only guessing as we worked with helicopters and military vehicle fleet repair.
I would imagine First have a big workshop. somewhere. Ever seen an open plan workshop with a four acre roof span and forty overhead
cranes.
oldest bus I went on in service this year. Open top Prefix D registration.
We had a bus rally one sunday. Went from StIves to Penzance on open top. the conductor was issuing bank tickets,no fare charge from his ticket machine. Bus even older.
locally the drivers prefer double deckers as they are easier to turn round on the runs out into the villages.
Mullion is the tightest squeeze to get the double deckers between the houses. Like a foot either side of the bus between the roofs of the cottages.
Rally buses, Dupals and Immediate post war bedfords. Five bob for a thirty mile trip when I was a Kid in North Dorset .Five buses a week came into the Highest village in Dorset in a week.
The cows were all milked by hand by girt hard maids. They had to be girt to push the cows into the milking parlour.
One of them only had five cows to milk. She did not have time to sit down to milk them ,so she did the job standing up.
Roderick