Keeping a record, February 1983
It seems a lot of you liked the posting 'Keeping a record', so here's another extract from one of my old bus driving log books. As I said before, I kept the notes of my own volition, it wasn't a requirement. Again the book was opened at a radom page for scanning.
4098 at 17/2/83 was either a short term loan from Hockley, or short-lived transfer to Wolverhampton. I remember that it still had a painted khaki roof.
4038 at 18/2/83 was by then a rare late evening working for an XON-J Fleetline, as they were used in the main on peak hour working and schools.
4045 at 23/2/83: TMD = Ticket Machine Defective
6425 at 18/2/83 refers to an night time incident, where I pulled out of Ednam Road in Wolverhampton on to Goldthorn Hill (a main road), when the propeller shaft between the gearbox and back axle snapped with a terrifically loud bang, leaving a trail of oil down the road. The bus was repaired and it looks like I next encounted it a few days later on 25/2/83.
4045 at 23/2/83 further entry at bottom of page. This refers to an incident when I was driving 4045 one freezing cold morning and just about everything went wrong with the bus, eventually resulting in me being stranded in it for a couple or three hours with the engine stopped and no heating. Although an older bus at the time, I never felt quite the same about driving 4045 after that.
Keeping a record, February 1983
It seems a lot of you liked the posting 'Keeping a record', so here's another extract from one of my old bus driving log books. As I said before, I kept the notes of my own volition, it wasn't a requirement. Again the book was opened at a radom page for scanning.
4098 at 17/2/83 was either a short term loan from Hockley, or short-lived transfer to Wolverhampton. I remember that it still had a painted khaki roof.
4038 at 18/2/83 was by then a rare late evening working for an XON-J Fleetline, as they were used in the main on peak hour working and schools.
4045 at 23/2/83: TMD = Ticket Machine Defective
6425 at 18/2/83 refers to an night time incident, where I pulled out of Ednam Road in Wolverhampton on to Goldthorn Hill (a main road), when the propeller shaft between the gearbox and back axle snapped with a terrifically loud bang, leaving a trail of oil down the road. The bus was repaired and it looks like I next encounted it a few days later on 25/2/83.
4045 at 23/2/83 further entry at bottom of page. This refers to an incident when I was driving 4045 one freezing cold morning and just about everything went wrong with the bus, eventually resulting in me being stranded in it for a couple or three hours with the engine stopped and no heating. Although an older bus at the time, I never felt quite the same about driving 4045 after that.