TRIVIA: What is the bus that sums up your childhood?

[Brooke]

Growing up in Cornwall and then up the Holme Valley in W Yorks...

• Western National Bristol VRs
• Zoar Motors’ Bristol LHS

And then...

• Leyland Atlanteans from Yorkshire Rider / First
• Stotts Mercedes bread vans on the Holme valley hopper routes
• Pride of the Road / K Line school buses - anything from a new Van Hool Alizée to a really old Leyland National!

 

[ClydeCoaster]

I was pretty lucky to grow up in the heartland of the Ayrshire co-operatives, with a such a mixed bag turning up on my A1 operated local route from an Dominant bus bodied Leopards to Sheffield-style Park Royal Atlanteans, Wadham Stringer Tigers to Leicester-style Dominators, and they were the ones bought new! Such a mixed bag of second hand stuff thrown in. The closest thing to standard were Alexander bodied Fleetlines, Atlanteans and Ailsas.

A smattering of SBG standard Fleetlines, Leopards and Seddons, as well as AA Nationals and Clyde Coast Plaxton Leopards made up the rest.

 

[johnnychips]

North Western Tiger Cub on the 123 Mottram-Charlesworth route in the early 60s. From being a baby my mum would take me to Broadbottom and drop me at my gran’s, pick up the bus on its way back, then go to work. This happened till I started school at 5.

My first word was ‘bus’.

 

[SargeNpton]

In Northampton, from the mid 60s until the advent of driver-only operation, the Daimler CVG6 was the mainstay of the fleet.

This is two of the preserved examples on 3rd May 2014 - being the day that the old Northampton Corporation bus garage (previously the tram sheds) closed after First Group had ceased to provide any services in the town.