RM 1563 & Mortlake Garage
Service reductions caused several of our tidy RM`s to be transferred away from Mortlake. We always tried to remove chrome trims of any bus due to leave as these were never likely to be appreciated in its new home. Earlier in my photostream I uploaded (8 Dec 2017) a picture of RM 1231 taken in Mortlake Garage on 31 January 1981.
Here`s the same bus barely six months later in Oxford Street on 25 July 1981. No chrome trims, no silver sprayed radiator, no badge on a grille which, on close inspection, appears to be in very poor condition and no chance of ever looking as it did just months before. It was frustrating to see our tidy buses quickly looking neglected when transferred away - in this instance to West Ham Garage which had several Leyland RM`s allocated at that time.
RM 1563 & Mortlake Garage
Service reductions caused several of our tidy RM`s to be transferred away from Mortlake. We always tried to remove chrome trims of any bus due to leave as these were never likely to be appreciated in its new home. Earlier in my photostream I uploaded (8 Dec 2017) a picture of RM 1231 taken in Mortlake Garage on 31 January 1981.
Here`s the same bus barely six months later in Oxford Street on 25 July 1981. No chrome trims, no silver sprayed radiator, no badge on a grille which, on close inspection, appears to be in very poor condition and no chance of ever looking as it did just months before. It was frustrating to see our tidy buses quickly looking neglected when transferred away - in this instance to West Ham Garage which had several Leyland RM`s allocated at that time.