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Book Published
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Hobby or Obsession? By John Braga
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RT1396, my first bus
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In the cab of RT1396, with grandson Oscar. |
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| RT1396 can now (2007) be found working for Alphabus, of Leighton Buzzard. |
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RT4777, my second bus
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Going to the ball |
| Here the bus sits outside my house, waiting to take villagers to the Village Millenium Ball. |
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| RT4777 can now be seen in and around Shaftsbury, Dorset, in service with the Shaftsbury and District Motor Company. She is now RED! |
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Bus-related Links
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April 2010: My 7th vehicle - I buy a Routemaster!
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| RM577, the "Silver Lady" | | This newly painted ex-London ROUTEMASTER joined the stable at the end of April 2010, as my 7th vehicle. As it has the body and running gear of RM664 (which was the unpainted Routemaster known as the Silver Lady), it has been painted silver rather than red (RM664 was painted red later in its life). Please click on the photo to see more pictures or click here to see some videos! |
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31st July 2009 - LFM 734, my sixth bus
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 LFM 734 is an 1950 Bristol single-deck bus (not coach) with the classification LL5G meaning that it has a long body (30 ft, seating 39), and a 5 cylinder Gardner engine.
It was operated in the North-West by Crosville.
See LFM 734 Restoration
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DMS 130, my fourth bus (or rather coach)
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DMS 130, viewed before I bought her, and clearly in need of urgent attention. |
| Click on the photo for photos of the long restoration process |
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LER 666P, my fifth vehicle. A classic 1970s coach.
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| LER 666P, ex Kenzies Coaches of Shepreth | | An immaculate example of a 1970s Duple-bodied coach. Please click on the photo for more pictures. I kept this for 3 years (very popular for village outings!) and then sold it in April 2010, back to Mike Fuller (from whom I bought it!) |
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FAQs
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Contact
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For messages, errors, omissions, suggestions, insults please contact me johnb@ crownsys.co.uk (remove the space after the @)
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NKD 540, a Liverpool AEC Regent
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A bus I used to go to school on in Liverpool in the '50s. Its fleet number was A40. The other buses in this class, A1 - A100, were Crossely-bodied and were in Liverpool's smart green livery with the Liver Bird logo on the side. |
| A 1954 Saunders-Roe bodied Liverpool Regent III. Left largely unpainted, it was known as the 'Silver Bullet'. I would dearly love to own it, but am not ever likely to. It belongs to Merseyside Transport Trust. |
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GHV 51N, my third bus
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| GHV 51N, at Showbus 2003 | | After selling RT4777, I thought I had given up bus restoration, but the bug struck again when an ex-London DMS, owned by a friend, came on the market... |
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