First the pain ...
After the many hours and not insignificant amounts of cash and effort which go into restoring and / or re-vamping old buses, the 'pain' doesn't end there if you're to get any pleasure out of them. Here two current members of our collection are fuelled up in readiness for yesterday's POPS running day at Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton, Stoke on Trent. In round terms you can now say that it costs about a pound to propell your large preserved bus one mile in direct running consumables ... thankfully there's no wage element!
In the picture are two ex Bournemouth Transport buses, on the left Weymann bodied Leyland Atlantean PDR1 AEL 170B (making it's debut after an overhaul and being out of the public gaze for years) and on the right the ever popular Daimler Roadliner KRU 55F.
As an aside, in days gone by, buses parked here would both be standing just inside the yard of Graham's Coaches of Talke.
First the pain ...
After the many hours and not insignificant amounts of cash and effort which go into restoring and / or re-vamping old buses, the 'pain' doesn't end there if you're to get any pleasure out of them. Here two current members of our collection are fuelled up in readiness for yesterday's POPS running day at Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton, Stoke on Trent. In round terms you can now say that it costs about a pound to propell your large preserved bus one mile in direct running consumables ... thankfully there's no wage element!
In the picture are two ex Bournemouth Transport buses, on the left Weymann bodied Leyland Atlantean PDR1 AEL 170B (making it's debut after an overhaul and being out of the public gaze for years) and on the right the ever popular Daimler Roadliner KRU 55F.
As an aside, in days gone by, buses parked here would both be standing just inside the yard of Graham's Coaches of Talke.