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Almost two years ago that i made it for the first time..and since, i tried every attempts as possible but it never ended up well..
But today, i didn't miss the chance and in the end, it was worth to go!
LT's Chiswick Works - allocated to experimental shop since 1979/80 - had been fitted with an experimental hydraulic braking system in 1973
Bournemouth to Bath Run date not recorded. From a recently acquired collection. Photographer not known
Made:1961 !!!
SN:61-949/282-3586/3625
Ex.USAF 61-0949
Callsign:TUN24
TAF 21 sqn.
From:Basel Mulhouse Freiburg,MLH,BSL,EAP/LFSB,LSZM/Saint-Louis/France/FR to Pardubice/LKPD/PED/Czech Republic/CZ
1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am T/A-6.6.
Registered in March 1980.
14 previous UK keepers.
Last MoT test expired in June 2014.
DMS1455. MLH 455L. Damiler Fleetline with MCW Bodywork. In London Transport livery. Recently been wrapped for use by Unite Union as their road tour vehicle. Seen at Stagecoach in Hastings Bus Garage, Silverhill.
Owned by the Bromley Bus Preservation Group.
Keeping it company, is Eastbourne's Scania 15770 GN61 EVT, which was shortly to leave to do a trip on the 99, 1103 Silverhill to Eastbourne.
It was the bus I was trying to take the picture of!
Some scans of recently discovered old 6 x 4 prints taken by myself back in the 1980s and 1990s. These were taken with my trusted Canon AE1 camera and at the time I didn’t think some of them were good enough to use however, I thought some might find them interesting and that I would now share them.
Ex London Transport DMS 1460 Pictured Here With Stevensons As No.59
Another Scan Of A Picture Taken As A Child From a Basic Halina Camera In The 80's Among Many Crude Photo's Taken This One Features Ex London Transport DMS 1460 MLH 460L A Metro-Cammel Bodied Daimler Fleetline CRL6. As With Many Of My Scanned Photo's Back In the Day I Did Not Bother To Note When Or Where The Picture Was Taken
History Fron Ian's Bus Stop Site:
5/73 new to Aldenham: 4/1DM4/1: MCCW/Gardner red, solid roundel, yellow doors
WH (West Ham)
7/73 PR transfer (Poplar)..
7/73 W ..transfer (Cricklewood)
4/74 BK transfer (Barking)
5/74 U transfer (Upton Park)
75-7 U
1/78 U repaint
1979 U
4/80 U withdrawn
4/80 sold to Ensign Bus & Coach, Purfleet converted to single doorway H44/27F, semi automatic transmission
9/80 bought by Lancashire United Transoport #334
4/81 taken over by Greater Manchester PTE, #2334
3/84 withdrawn
5/84 bought by Stevensons, Uttoxeter
7/84 Stevensons, Uttoxeter, converted to single doorway, #59
11/84 bought by Astill & Jordan, Ratby, Leicestershire #5
1/85 Astill & Jorden
*/86 renumbered #460
10/86 bought by Stevensons, Uttoxeter
7/87 Stevensons, Uttoxeter
2/88 withdrawn
8/88 renumbered #59A
*/89 stripped for spares
9/89 sold to PVS (Carlton) for scrap