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Always remember Ernie telling me not to buy the commercial bottled oil, guess you know why.

I started in 1964 and left in 1967. Were you at Stockland green or a Short Heath road ? My Mate Ernie Marsden worked part time on the Stockland Green pumps, unfortunately lost touch in the early seventies. Sorry just re read your post re Shortheath road, I used to chassis wash the coaches...

What year were you there Allan ?

I used to stand by the jellied eel stall in the old market hall whilst my Mother went shopping, put me off eating jellied eels for life.

Just trying to be funny, don't take offence as life's too short for falling out over nothing.

No wonder they stank after14 years

When I worked for Stocklands in the mid sixties we started at 9pm Friday night doing the local pick ups for all the overnight services, drove down to Paignton leaving Stockland green at 11pm arriving at About 7am refuelled cleaned the coach inside then left at 9am and returned to Bridgewater for...

I remember a chap called Ronnie Allan when he worked for Allenways if I remember correctly, very dapper and often seen with a rolled up brolly. One Driver that worked for Stocklands had moved from Flights, a regular occurrence in those days, his name was Cliff Richards known as Mgeeve what a...

My PSV ran out in 1978 but I took my PCV in 1998 after I'd taken early retirement in 1996. Had my C+E by grandfather rights but both now gone as never took the medical when I reached 70. Sorry to hear about your Dad and Vic and your heart attack.

Colin went back down the pit, a job he'd done when he was younger, unfortunately he was in an accident when one of the trucks hit him underground. He never worked after and coped with his injuries extremely well.

Yes Colin was my Brother in Law.

Vic and Ken both worked for my BIL.

Thanks for the info. My BIL had a small coach company in Coleshill back in the seventies, excessive overheads and complying with legislation resulted in closure, very sad.

Used to walk over Tower Hill bridge on my way to and from Beeches road School, seem to remember there being bollards to prevent vehicle access.

No still no bar in the photo wether it's been said before or not, wether it's a Rolls or a Morris is immaterial. I am referring to post 2775 incidentally.

I think the bar you mention is just a shadow, enlarging the photo doesn't then show a bar.

She was good in Scrooge with Alastair sim, something we watch every Christmas.

I'd say that most of my mileage is taken up with 2 mile journeys, Grandkids to School and the weekly supermarket trips. The engine barely gets warm and I always have the aircon running, add the use of electrics including lights and wipers as it's rarely stopped raining recently, then low 20's...

I've got the CVT transmission on my Nissan Qashqai 1.6 petrol. Had autos for many years and driven semi autos and fully auto's on PCV's. As a very low mileage user, 2500 miles per annum, I find that the fuel consumption is very poor at 21 mpg, also the noise when accelerating hard is very...

When I drove for First Cornwall back in the early 2000 if the almex ticket machine was missing they would give you a setright to use. I'd never used one or been shown how to so everyone got a free ride.