Ian Fuller2006
Tidy but unpopular
Bexhill Bus ran not only its trunk route from Hastings to Bexhill and Sidley (the 97) but a number of town services and a handful of tendered routes. Six elderly Bristol REs were the core fleet, however the fleet also contained a minibus and this Bristol LH. It was probably tidier than the rest of the fleet, which may have something to do with it doing significantly less work than the rest! Its clutch and gearbox were apparently quite evil, and it was evidently unpopular as a result. Weekends, when I usually visited, it was virtually always in the yard and I don't think I ever saw it used. The advertisers seem not to have been getting great value for money. Nonetheless it had been in the fleet a long time, having arrived in the Bexhill Bus Co. fleet in 1981. It originated with Hants & Dorset as no. 3517. Here it is seen parked up in the yard in early 1993.
Tidy but unpopular
Bexhill Bus ran not only its trunk route from Hastings to Bexhill and Sidley (the 97) but a number of town services and a handful of tendered routes. Six elderly Bristol REs were the core fleet, however the fleet also contained a minibus and this Bristol LH. It was probably tidier than the rest of the fleet, which may have something to do with it doing significantly less work than the rest! Its clutch and gearbox were apparently quite evil, and it was evidently unpopular as a result. Weekends, when I usually visited, it was virtually always in the yard and I don't think I ever saw it used. The advertisers seem not to have been getting great value for money. Nonetheless it had been in the fleet a long time, having arrived in the Bexhill Bus Co. fleet in 1981. It originated with Hants & Dorset as no. 3517. Here it is seen parked up in the yard in early 1993.