Replicating history.
Over the past ten days or so, the Mrs and I were privileged to take part in something of an epic recreation.
The plan, by the adventurous owner of ex Crosville Bristol RELH AFM 105B was to reinact a journey which it undertook brand new in 1965 . . . just about 60 years ago.
Back then it took a party of forty something Crosville employees on an overland journey to the Italian seaside town of Alassio, over a thousand miles distant from its home base of Caernarfon.
We joined the small party on Thursday 9th May and set out to emulate the above as closely as possible in Steve Graham's superbly preserved coach. The only difference in the coach's specification nowadays to back then is that it now has a Gardner 6HLXB rather than a 6HLX which gave it a good deal more grunt.
In this photo the coach is seen posed part way up the climb to the St. Bernard tunnel in Switzerland en route to the Italian border.
Replicating history.
Over the past ten days or so, the Mrs and I were privileged to take part in something of an epic recreation.
The plan, by the adventurous owner of ex Crosville Bristol RELH AFM 105B was to reinact a journey which it undertook brand new in 1965 . . . just about 60 years ago.
Back then it took a party of forty something Crosville employees on an overland journey to the Italian seaside town of Alassio, over a thousand miles distant from its home base of Caernarfon.
We joined the small party on Thursday 9th May and set out to emulate the above as closely as possible in Steve Graham's superbly preserved coach. The only difference in the coach's specification nowadays to back then is that it now has a Gardner 6HLXB rather than a 6HLX which gave it a good deal more grunt.
In this photo the coach is seen posed part way up the climb to the St. Bernard tunnel in Switzerland en route to the Italian border.