Ex PMT Daimler Roadliner with Holmeswood.
However much I stuggle to remember the events which took place yesterday, some of the more ridiculous stuff from years ago still inhabits the filing cabinets of my mind. Looking at this picture now, taken over thirty years ago, I recall Art Garfunkel's 'Bright Eyes' playng on the car radio as we trawled the Rufford area looking for Holmeswood's premises.
We'd heard the operator had an ex PMT Roadliner in the fleet, but never really expected we'd find it still there ... such was the general level of expectation when searching for breed. However, to our amazement and great pleasure we were freely admitted and shown to the bus in question, WEH 137G, which coincidentally was the last one I ever recall seeing working with PMT when I believed them all withdrawn. Also on site was a rather less fortunate 134G, a bonus for us, but sadly the hapless bus was being used as a 'Christmas tree'. Both carried Plaxton Derwent bodies and were from PMT's final batch which came new with Perkins V8.510 engines. I could never understand why PMT after taking this revolutionary but troublesome 'low floor' chassis, went on to specify step entrance on production buses. Prototype 6000 EH had a step-less floor, but the final batch like 137 above actually had two steps.
As a ps. - How many times have I subsequently wished I'd asked Holmeswood to put this one by for me after they'd finished with it!
Ex PMT Daimler Roadliner with Holmeswood.
However much I stuggle to remember the events which took place yesterday, some of the more ridiculous stuff from years ago still inhabits the filing cabinets of my mind. Looking at this picture now, taken over thirty years ago, I recall Art Garfunkel's 'Bright Eyes' playng on the car radio as we trawled the Rufford area looking for Holmeswood's premises.
We'd heard the operator had an ex PMT Roadliner in the fleet, but never really expected we'd find it still there ... such was the general level of expectation when searching for breed. However, to our amazement and great pleasure we were freely admitted and shown to the bus in question, WEH 137G, which coincidentally was the last one I ever recall seeing working with PMT when I believed them all withdrawn. Also on site was a rather less fortunate 134G, a bonus for us, but sadly the hapless bus was being used as a 'Christmas tree'. Both carried Plaxton Derwent bodies and were from PMT's final batch which came new with Perkins V8.510 engines. I could never understand why PMT after taking this revolutionary but troublesome 'low floor' chassis, went on to specify step entrance on production buses. Prototype 6000 EH had a step-less floor, but the final batch like 137 above actually had two steps.
As a ps. - How many times have I subsequently wished I'd asked Holmeswood to put this one by for me after they'd finished with it!