Recent content by Swanny200

They were Merc 0303 clones, would have been a lot more of them sold apparently had the war and breakup of Yugoslavia not happened, IIRC a couple of them were rescued just before the war started, were not great machines. Also looked and apologies if someone else has mentioned them what about the...

PMT 700 had a front end change when it was sent to Maidstone and District, was not a lucky machine and had a few accidents, I knew a driver at the old Chatham Luton Road depot that said that drivers hated it as it was always getting involved in some kind of trouble

The Ailsa was built as a demonstrator using a left over body, part of me thinks had it been built in conjunction with a different bodybuilder then it might not have been a one off, that Camair body is not a looker, Marshall definitely lost their touch from the 80s onward

The B57 was only one of 3, the one mentioned which as Gus rightly says was repositioned and in some books classed as a B57, others a B7. One B57 was on a Y type alexander body, the other was a WS Vanguard I think. As for the C10M, popular abroad but only 10 here, good looking coaches as well...

Keeping in with the MCW theme, has anyone mentioned the oddball MCW metrobuses with the various Alexander bodies, are they classed as unusual?

If I remember correctly, I travelled on both of Northerns sets of Metroliners during their time there and one of Grampians Hi-Liners and am almost sure that one of Grampians examples was the Aberdeen F.C team bus for a very brief time, used to sit at Guild Street waiting for my Gran who worked...

Had to check the date to make sure it wasn't an April fool! I remember preselectors, never used a Manual and to be honest would never want to on a service bus, I had the clutch pack go on a Manual lorry once, couldn't even move the thing to tow it. When even lorries are auto boxes now and as...

I remember regularly going from Edinburgh to London in the 2000s, Think Stuarts of Carluke used to do the runs then for duplicates, wasn't the first time that 3 or 4 coaches turned up on a Thursday or Friday night, driver one in the branded coach would do the full run with one of the dupes, then...

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Wasn't there also a bus bodied Jonckheere for one of the London companies Scan coaches I think, there wasn't many of them over here?

The Europa looked quite smart, surprised they didn't get more orders. The JJLs were all taken up by the local council in Maidstone in Kent, AFAIK one or more did end up with Boroline

Unfortunately not, it never carried Stagecoach livery as a double, was IIRC in the Red and Cream fife Scottish livery and then in the triple blue and yellow Fife Scottish citylink livery before going to Western also in a bespoke livery

And if I recall correctly, the same David Brown of Aston Martin fame

The last Astromega was to King Ferry 3 years ago according to Bus Lists on the Web (BLOTW), so it now does make me wonder if we are seeing the death knell for high capacity double deck coaches here. These companies may well make them, but if a UK company says "give us 2 of those coaches of...

80 DD Panoramas have been built in 5 years, I know that COVID may have affected that, but lets be honest, if they can't seem to be bothered to adapt for a market then it's on them. That answers a new question though what double deck offerings are available apart from them for long distance...