Adderley Street scrap bus list at 28th September 1983
I was never a bus spotter, number jotter in the sense of standing on street corners, or in bus stations recording numbers, but I did occasionally make notes to assist my photography and understanding of the general fleet movements of the time. This is one of the surviving records I have, listing withdrawn buses in Adderlely Street bus compound at Deritend, Birmingham on 28/9/1983.
The document also records the mechanical completeness/incompleteness of the vehicles, but fails to record the bodily condition. I know that on other lists I compiled that I used the abbreviation 'CAN' for buses that had bodies cannibalised for parts. There again, the photographs I took would have indicated the state of the bus bodies. The list is fairly self-explanatory, but for clarification:
NE = No engine
NG = No gearbox
NEG = No engine or gearbox
C = mechanically complete (It did not mean that the vehicle was a runner)
I don't know if these musings are of interest, but I thought that I would share a few of them, especially for those who can recall such events in the West Mids 30+ years ago.
Adderley Street scrap bus list at 28th September 1983
I was never a bus spotter, number jotter in the sense of standing on street corners, or in bus stations recording numbers, but I did occasionally make notes to assist my photography and understanding of the general fleet movements of the time. This is one of the surviving records I have, listing withdrawn buses in Adderlely Street bus compound at Deritend, Birmingham on 28/9/1983.
The document also records the mechanical completeness/incompleteness of the vehicles, but fails to record the bodily condition. I know that on other lists I compiled that I used the abbreviation 'CAN' for buses that had bodies cannibalised for parts. There again, the photographs I took would have indicated the state of the bus bodies. The list is fairly self-explanatory, but for clarification:
NE = No engine
NG = No gearbox
NEG = No engine or gearbox
C = mechanically complete (It did not mean that the vehicle was a runner)
I don't know if these musings are of interest, but I thought that I would share a few of them, especially for those who can recall such events in the West Mids 30+ years ago.