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Andrew
 Nov 23, 07 - 8:20 AM |
Routemaster bus to Timbuktu
I've heard that one of you took their Routemaster bus to Timbuktu!! I'd like to hear from that person or anybody else who's taken their bus slightly off route. |
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Dave Moore
Jan 6th, 2008 - 7:05 AM |
Re: Routemaster bus to Timbuktu
Hi Andrew. Not a routemaster, and not exactly Timbuktu! The bus is a Bristol LD6G. In 1977, Southern Vectis sold their 1958 No. 519 to Top Deck Travel. This company converted it to seat and sleep up to 12 passengers for trips to Tibet & Nepal. They also had to lower the roof slightly as well. The bus made twenty journeys to this part of the World before the bus was donated to The Isle of Wight Bus Museum where it stood for ten years. Early in 2007, we received a request for the bus to be taken over to Dublin for a reunion. Despite the long period of standing idle, it was started and put successfully through an MOT although I'm told the fisrt time we fired up the engine, it could have passed for a smoke generator on a warship. The bus went to Dublin as planned and returned to our museum where it's on display again. If anyone is interested in seeing the vehicle, more details can be found on our website www.iowbusmuseum.org.uk (Click on Events, then List of participating vehicles for May 11th) If anyone knows of the crews for these trips, or has any information or tales about them the museum would be delighted to hear from them. Dave Moore Company Secretary |
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amanda
Jan 23rd, 2008 - 3:35 AM |
Re: Routemaster bus to Timbuktu
I wouldn't want to take a Routemaster but driving a bus across the country, around different countries is an experience I pray I have before I leave this mortal coil. I have this silly notion of a bus that raises money for charity, similar to Summer Holiday but with a different motivation and a better cast (sorry to the fans of that film but I am young :D ) There is a freedom that can't be explained and a power that can't be harnessed inside every fibre of my being when I drive. Driving buses - if I don't have to open the doors - is a guilty pleasure. How do you explain to someone who has never driven a bus what it's like? Thanks for the story about the 'timbuk bus'. I love a legend.....waiting to create my own. Any other fables out there?? |
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