VR Swansong
Ten years ago, First still had a handful of Bristol VRs in service in Dorset, albeit mainly on schools work. Here we see former Southern National 1161 (AFJ 768T) at Bridport on such a duty. A few weeks before this photo, First had moved the Weymouth & Bridport operations onto the First Hampshire Ltd licence (appropriately renamed First Hampshire & Dorset Ltd at the same time), so the bus was technically on its third keeper from new: Western National OC, Southern National and FH&D. The FH&D company, of course, started life in 1986 as the arms-length company for Southampton Citybus.
On a completely different topic, I'm very pleased to see that Aviary has had a revamp and the incredibly annoying borders to any text added to pictures has been dropped. Yippee! :-)
VR Swansong
Ten years ago, First still had a handful of Bristol VRs in service in Dorset, albeit mainly on schools work. Here we see former Southern National 1161 (AFJ 768T) at Bridport on such a duty. A few weeks before this photo, First had moved the Weymouth & Bridport operations onto the First Hampshire Ltd licence (appropriately renamed First Hampshire & Dorset Ltd at the same time), so the bus was technically on its third keeper from new: Western National OC, Southern National and FH&D. The FH&D company, of course, started life in 1986 as the arms-length company for Southampton Citybus.
On a completely different topic, I'm very pleased to see that Aviary has had a revamp and the incredibly annoying borders to any text added to pictures has been dropped. Yippee! :-)