WMPTE 5533 at Yardley Wood, Birmingham, 27th December 1985
WMPTE DMS Fleetline number 5533, parked on the fuel pumps inside Yardley Wood Garage on Friday 27th December 1985. The bus was one of several former London Transport DMS types that operated from Yardley Wood Garage from the late 70's into the mid 80s.
Taken just a few days after Christmas, the garage would have been very quiet, unlike events that were unfolding on the very same day elsewhere in the World, when Abu Nidal terrorists open fire in airports at Rome and Vienna, leaving 18 dead and 120 injured. The then US President, Ronald Reagan blamed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. And in Rwanda American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered at her cabin in Karisoke. Dr. Dian Fossey, one of the world’s leading female scientists, had devoted her life to protecting and studying the mountain gorillas of Africa. She is probably best remembered for her book “Gorillas in the Mist.”, which was made into a film in 1988 starring Sigourney Weaver as Dian Fossey.
WMPTE 5533 at Yardley Wood, Birmingham, 27th December 1985
WMPTE DMS Fleetline number 5533, parked on the fuel pumps inside Yardley Wood Garage on Friday 27th December 1985. The bus was one of several former London Transport DMS types that operated from Yardley Wood Garage from the late 70's into the mid 80s.
Taken just a few days after Christmas, the garage would have been very quiet, unlike events that were unfolding on the very same day elsewhere in the World, when Abu Nidal terrorists open fire in airports at Rome and Vienna, leaving 18 dead and 120 injured. The then US President, Ronald Reagan blamed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. And in Rwanda American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered at her cabin in Karisoke. Dr. Dian Fossey, one of the world’s leading female scientists, had devoted her life to protecting and studying the mountain gorillas of Africa. She is probably best remembered for her book “Gorillas in the Mist.”, which was made into a film in 1988 starring Sigourney Weaver as Dian Fossey.