Saved then scrapped
February 18th 1967 and Bristol Omnibus 8008, a 1951 Bristol KS6B with an eight foot wide ECW 60-seat body (note the overhang between the front wheel track and the mudguard), is photographed climbing Park Street, Bristol, having recently left the Tramways Centre and heading out to Cribbs Causeway in the west of the city - now a huge out of town retail development, but then a small rank of houses on the outskirts of the city. Within a few yards the driver would probably have needed to change down a cog as he approached the junction with Park Row and the University and Museum buildings.
The bus was withdrawn a little later in the year and kept by the company for inclusion in a possible museum: however, ten years later it was sold for scrap.
Saved then scrapped
February 18th 1967 and Bristol Omnibus 8008, a 1951 Bristol KS6B with an eight foot wide ECW 60-seat body (note the overhang between the front wheel track and the mudguard), is photographed climbing Park Street, Bristol, having recently left the Tramways Centre and heading out to Cribbs Causeway in the west of the city - now a huge out of town retail development, but then a small rank of houses on the outskirts of the city. Within a few yards the driver would probably have needed to change down a cog as he approached the junction with Park Row and the University and Museum buildings.
The bus was withdrawn a little later in the year and kept by the company for inclusion in a possible museum: however, ten years later it was sold for scrap.