First PMT - VOSA pounces
What had by then become First PMT's maintenance problems were well-known during the mid-2000s. A surprise visit by VOSA's vehicle inspectors in 2003 produced a massive headache as they promptly put a large number of buses off the road as defective. Fortunately for PMT, it was half-term week in Manchester and thus First's subsidiary near Wigan could be raided of its yellow double-deckers for a few days to provide a temporary soloution.
These borrowed buses included Volvo Citybuses, Dennis Dominators and, as seen here, Scanias. This is a poor shot of 30252, G804 JRH, a Scania N113DRB with East Lancs bodywork new to Kingston-upon-Hull City Transport, arriving in Newcastle-u-Lyme with a working on service 34 between Hanley and Audley.
First PMT - VOSA pounces
What had by then become First PMT's maintenance problems were well-known during the mid-2000s. A surprise visit by VOSA's vehicle inspectors in 2003 produced a massive headache as they promptly put a large number of buses off the road as defective. Fortunately for PMT, it was half-term week in Manchester and thus First's subsidiary near Wigan could be raided of its yellow double-deckers for a few days to provide a temporary soloution.
These borrowed buses included Volvo Citybuses, Dennis Dominators and, as seen here, Scanias. This is a poor shot of 30252, G804 JRH, a Scania N113DRB with East Lancs bodywork new to Kingston-upon-Hull City Transport, arriving in Newcastle-u-Lyme with a working on service 34 between Hanley and Audley.