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Armed with plenty of Koruns we are now looking forward to entering Czechoslovakia which can be seen at the head of the traffic queue in the first view. Second view and once over the border the traffic seemed to evaporate as seen in the first small town we came upon. Note the obsolete level...

John, 3247 is still working with a private operator and when withdrawn by them is on first refusal to David Griffiths who organised the Czech Autofest events. He wants to put it back in to WMT livery if the deal goes through. If this happens 3247 will make it's third trip to the Czech but not...

Through to the 1960's YW had a row of withdrawn Daimler COG5 buses fitted with snowploughs underneath and backwheel snowchains for use over bus routes during heavy snowfall. These were used along with a lorry converted from another COG5 bus for grit spreading. There's more about these in the...

[QUOTE=Thylacine; I love the Broad Street tinted postcard: what a beautiful period street scene. And tastefully coloured, probably soon after the picture was taken. the "garden seat" horse bus with bright yellow wheels and upper panels (we're lucky to discover anything about horse bus livery!)...

Ok John and Thylacine here we go then. Having reached Dover in good time to refuel, we found at the port already a London Transport Routemaster. It turned out to be privately preserved RM938, booked on the same ferry as us and heading for the same place, and better still had been before to the...

Another illustration of the CM6 derived coach. Note having reached its destination 'out in the country' it now has an extra window and looks a bit more like a CM6 in this view.

Often wondered about that myself! To introduce a few different buses (and maybe a tram or two) I have started a new thread about West Midlands Travel reaching the Czech Republic for the first time in 1993. Eases the off topic situation on this one:D

In 1990 a group of WMT busmen at Yardley Wood including myself formed a bus enthusiasts club to take a company 'showbus' to bus shows and rallies. At first the bus used was a withdrawn Daimler Fleetline double decker retained by the company numbered 4041 which was to be later donated to the...

Before decimalisation every Setright machine had a brass punch mounted on the front (see below my hand over the machine in my Brylcreem photo). Each punch had a different punch out shape and was intended for cancelling returns or punching emergency tickets when needed and later for confirming to...

Not really, except to say that it is the same colour as, and must predate, my 8d 'multifunction' ticket that was in use when the bell punch gave way to Verometer and Setright. Some areas of the Midland Red such as Leicester and Worcester had local variations in the past and different typeface...

Surprised to see myself and my ticket rack above. As a matter of interest you may notice there are no 8d value tickets in the rack. When I aquired the rack the block of 8d tickets turned out to be the topmost ticket only. Those underneath of the same colour had come from George Cooper's Omnibus...

As promised no hint of steam here as we see an artists impression in a childrens book of a coach with more than a passing front end likeness to a Midland Red CM6.

Now that you mention pyramids Thylacine - no, only joking but as you happen to mention a Scot, how about this Thompson steamer on trial between Edinburgh and Leith in 1870! A monster to equal that of Loch Ness tha noo. Plenty for Rupert to get his teeth in to on this one, strange steering, a...

Just stoked up the the old steam computer to find Charlie was warm but Lloyd of course was bound to recognise it - job done!

This one seems to have sunk so unless Lloyd chances to see it, I'll leave it a mystery for another time

Sorry again Dave, no it is located in Birmingham. Will check thread later.

Ah, Thylacine, thank you for refreshing my memory of a conversation I had with an ex Reliance driver back in 1976. As you say it was not the Evesham to Cheltenham service that passed from Reliance to Stratford Blue, but the Evesham to Stratford service. The Reliance owners had been approached by...

Sorry, no

Quite a lot by all accounts Rupert, and a great many killed but mainly from the primitive boilers blowing up!

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