13/7/2014 0 Comments June / July 2014June was such a busy month for Southern Counties with various shows. We visited Dover Transport Museum in the middle of the month and at then at the end was Preston Steam Rally. Both buses on the road this season have been Maidstone motors, 5137 and 5215. As for July, so far the focus has been on my buses, with work this weekend on MFN41R. Paul and myself have been stripping out the police bus conversion from the lower deck. This has revealed a few damp areas but now the vehicle can 'breath' a lot better and the internal air flow is greatly improved so this should soon dry out.
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2/8/2012 YouTube open top VR ride.This is a fantastic video shot by DMS550's Dad, Paul as RVB977S - better known as the Pride Of Thanet- passed through the Dartford Tunnel en route to North Weald. 23/1/2011 0 Comments Pink Bristols!This is Southern Vectis 679 (FDL679V) a 1979 Bristol VR - basically like 7681. She is currently with Johnsons of Hodthorpe (as are quite a few other ex Southern Vectis VR's). Wouldn't it be nice to see her restored in this bright allover advert she wore for Blackgang Chine back in the 90's? Would make a change from leaf green and would certainly stand out in any line up! I often wonder what I would've done had I have owned 7682 instead. Like 679 she spent many years in various advert liveries (although not as bright as this one maybe!) Would I had been tempted to restore her in a advert for a long defunct local company?
6/10/2010 0 Comments 7681 passes MOTGood news is that 7681 passed her test today at Canterbury. She drove perfectly there and back after spending last night in Thanet (it was an early test!) showing that keeping her mileage down this year has helped iron out some of the little problems she was having. Next year of course is 681's big three oh birthday and also 10 years of her being in my ownership so around September we will certainly be holding an event of some kind, probably around Thanet. Over the winter I hope to tidy her up a little bit and sort out the opening front windows. I was thinking about getting 'EK' stickers to go over the NBC double arrow too as this would show how she would have looked post privatisation before receiving the 'new' maroon and cream livery. It would also compliment 7980 and National 1178 (when she arrives!) too. The jury's still out on that one though.
Elsewhere, fomer copshop 5807 will be off road for the next year or two. She still has the tendancy to throw a wobbly when she get warm which I will be getting fixed in the next few months if it proves to be the fuel pump. Not only that she is proving very valuable as a store room / office / canteen too. I'm keeping her mobile with little trips around the yard but her upper deck in now full of VR and Titan spares. DMS550 is still slumbering in the garage at Sandwich. Everything is there to complete her but it just needs putting on! Again, this winter I'm hoping to progress on 550 and maybe move her towards an MOT too. |
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