... and the other.
This was the second Roadliner that I owned, though albeit briefly. The circumstances of it's purchase were almost surreal. By the time that I was operating UAD 316H, it was by some margin the last revenue earning example in regular service in the UK, and possibly the world. One morning returning to base after working a school contract, I was merrily throbbing and wuffling my way down the road to our garage, when parked almost opposite was RDG 304G from B&W's previous batch. My coach had barely stopped in the yard before I was out and scurrying across to it.
The coach had been bought by a well intentioned (new age) traveller from a resting place in a pallet yard near Southport. It was his idea to make the coach into a mobile home and workshop, then drive it to the Middle East and help re-build Kuwait! To cut a long story short, I persuaded him that he might not have chosen the best vehicle to try to do such with, and bought it off him. The degree of work required to return the bus to operational service was beyond what we as an operator could justify, but I managed to find a preservationist to take the project on. I haven't heard of it for many years now, so I guess I should fear the worst as with about half a dozen other buses I've passed on sadly.
The coach here wears the livery of it's last operator, Sale Moor Radio Cars.
RDG 304G was another SRP8 Roadliner.
... and the other.
This was the second Roadliner that I owned, though albeit briefly. The circumstances of it's purchase were almost surreal. By the time that I was operating UAD 316H, it was by some margin the last revenue earning example in regular service in the UK, and possibly the world. One morning returning to base after working a school contract, I was merrily throbbing and wuffling my way down the road to our garage, when parked almost opposite was RDG 304G from B&W's previous batch. My coach had barely stopped in the yard before I was out and scurrying across to it.
The coach had been bought by a well intentioned (new age) traveller from a resting place in a pallet yard near Southport. It was his idea to make the coach into a mobile home and workshop, then drive it to the Middle East and help re-build Kuwait! To cut a long story short, I persuaded him that he might not have chosen the best vehicle to try to do such with, and bought it off him. The degree of work required to return the bus to operational service was beyond what we as an operator could justify, but I managed to find a preservationist to take the project on. I haven't heard of it for many years now, so I guess I should fear the worst as with about half a dozen other buses I've passed on sadly.
The coach here wears the livery of it's last operator, Sale Moor Radio Cars.
RDG 304G was another SRP8 Roadliner.