The addition of the driver and conductor was the finishing touch to this wayside station cameo and Ray, always keen to get the details right, asked for some help with the bus crew uniforms. The detailed layout, along with its skilled owner, is located in far-away Melbourne, Australia and the bus crew is of course represented in miniature form! The layout is described in more detail in this post from March 2014. Now, to complete the scene, a colleague and I have joined the bus on the fine scale model railway. Some time ago I featured a few photographs of a very well researched model of a Bath Services Bristol L5G. The storage unit soon filled with pungent exhaust smoke so I quickly brought the FS outside into the open. In previous years I remember she would fire up after a couple of turns. Since having an engine overhaul last year, the Gardner 6LW seems to be reluctant to burst into life when cold so there were a few anxious moments while I coaxed the old girl into life. Having earlier had a guided tour of the storage unit I arrived on the Saturday morning to prepare and do my walk round checks. There is a narrow one-way system serving the church where low hanging branches also posed a problem but I decided that there were alternatives! Satisfied that it was all do-able, I went on to St Andrew’s Church which is only about 10 minutes drive down the road. I walked down and visualised a Lodekka doing a reversing manoever. There is a driveway up to the original main entrance but there isn’t enough room to turn a bus around so I went into the hotel reception and found out that, when they have coach parties arrive, the vehicle reverses up the drive. This is a large hotel near the sea, formerly a private residence, which is a popular wedding venue.
Besides, I have a Tilling winter uniform but not a London Transport one!Īlso during the previous week I had used a couple of spare hours between school contract runs to carry out a recce by car in Clevedon because I was not sure about access for the bus into Clevedon Hall. I didn’t mind using YD元18 instead as I am very familiar with it. There had been a vehicle change during the previous week because a London Transport RT had originally been allocated but this vehicle was still under repair elsewhere in the UK. It was also my first duty from Crosville Vintage’s recently established storage unit just outside Weston-super-Mare which is best suited to the double deck members of the fleet. My first heritage bus duty of 2020 was a wedding in Clevedon using ex-Southern Vectis 573, a Bristol Lodekka I have driven many times before. If you are involved in bus preservation in any way, dressing the part is a must so get hold of one of these while you can. These reproductions are made from a poly/cotton mix and only single stitched but, being priced at £34.99, they make an acceptable alternative to searching for an original which, when you can find them, are usually well worn and overpriced! The jacket design is not a faithful replica of the original busmen’s jackets, which were made of cotton drill material and the seams were double stitched. The jackets come with three black plastic removeable shank buttons as standard but, if like me you have some genuine buttons in your collection, you can use them instead. Green trim is available too and the jackets come in a range of chest sizes. As you can see in the photo above, the jacket is available with maroon trim on the collar and cuffs. Follow this link to pre-order your jacket. They have for several years produced a reasonably good summer jacket in beige/maroon and beige/green but, soon after being re-structured as ‘Yarmo by KESC’, these were withdrawn.Īpparently they have had a number of enquiries for these jackets and they have decided to do another production run in November 2021. Some of you may be aware that I have often recommended Yarmouth Stores, a workwear company based in Great Yarmouth. A supplier of reproduction busmen’s summer dust jackets has recently restarted production after previously withdrawing the items from sale.
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