Saturday lunchtime
Lunchtime on Saturday 17th May 1980 and a Bristol Omnibus Co. FLF Lodekka noses its way out into the traffic at Filton as workers from the BAC and Rolls-Royce factories make their way home after their stint of Saturday morning double-time. It was getting late in the day for the FLFs. The Joint Services agreement which had made the Bristol City Services the joint responsibility of BOC and Bristol City Council had been brought to an end and 7285 has lost the "C" prefix to its fleet number. This bus was one of a number of FLFs which, originally equipped with Bristol engines, had been re-engined with Gardner 6LWs during the mid-70s to ensure a supply of spare parts into their old age. The last FLFs to remain in service were largely made up of these vehicles. The bus advertises Littlewood's football pools ...a kind of stupidity tax which had made its promoter, John Moores, the richest man in Britain. With their main competitor, Vernon's, they were killed stone dead when the National Lottery was introduced.
Saturday lunchtime
Lunchtime on Saturday 17th May 1980 and a Bristol Omnibus Co. FLF Lodekka noses its way out into the traffic at Filton as workers from the BAC and Rolls-Royce factories make their way home after their stint of Saturday morning double-time. It was getting late in the day for the FLFs. The Joint Services agreement which had made the Bristol City Services the joint responsibility of BOC and Bristol City Council had been brought to an end and 7285 has lost the "C" prefix to its fleet number. This bus was one of a number of FLFs which, originally equipped with Bristol engines, had been re-engined with Gardner 6LWs during the mid-70s to ensure a supply of spare parts into their old age. The last FLFs to remain in service were largely made up of these vehicles. The bus advertises Littlewood's football pools ...a kind of stupidity tax which had made its promoter, John Moores, the richest man in Britain. With their main competitor, Vernon's, they were killed stone dead when the National Lottery was introduced.