For Sale FAO SCOTTISH BUS FOLKS..

[320touring]

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C578856

 

make it so, k plzthnksbye

[Cavcraft]

It's been haunted by the ghost of Jocky Wilson

 

[skattrd]

Didn't cms (Andy) used to own a bus?

[RoadworkUK]

I would absolutely love to get that to just-about-scrape-through MOT condition, leave the exterior 100% as is, and then drive it around Stonehouse's bus routes providing a terrifying, ghostly, lost-in-time bus experience. Rather than taking fares I'd just say "woo-ooo-ooo" and go translucent.

[Largactil]

I remember Midland Bluebird using these well into the 90's (maybe even 2000) on their Hillfoots route from Alloa to Stirling when I were a lad.

[cms206]

Didn't cms (Andy) used to own a bus?

I had about twelve, including four of those Alexander-bodied Leyland Leopards - HCS 793N, GCS 69V, PSX 188Y and PSX 189Y. Picked GCS 69V up from it's original owner with MOT for £500+vat back in the day.

 

ULS 330T was Midland's MPE330 though I think it spent time with Strathtay and Meffans so it'll be fairly pumped. That said I absolutely still would, those Leopards (in general, I was brought up in Western-Clydeside land) were the bus of my childhood and I really miss mine. They are rugged, aluminium bodied and framed so no rust, they look as cool as fuck.

[brickwall]

So many memories of Midland Scottish and Bluebird driving me home from school. In those days you could talk to the driver with your back on the windscreen and yer bum nestled behind the railing.

[Craig the Princess]

What are the rules about driving old buses? Do you need a pre-97 car licence, or will any one do? Our do you need to do a bus test?

[Inspector Morose]

Back in the day, we borrowed some ex lowland Seddon/Alexanders for our fledgling bus service. Think heavier leopard with Gardner engine and a four speed stick box! Green and yellow with "best bus in the country" in big vinyl letters down the side. Once we found out they were individual letters, they were never swapped around on the offside to spell rude things, oh no.

Mega mpg but after eight hours with one, you were totally wrecked.

[greengartside]

It's been haunted by the ghost of Jocky Wilson

 

 

Or Fred West?

[320touring]

the leopard is the only bus I can remember from childhood!

[MarvinsMom]

leyland nationals and bristol re single deckers, and leyland olympian and bristol vr double deckers are the one that i remember feom been a nipper, plus the leyland lynx when i got into my teens.

[rml2345]

We were on the fringes of Seddon Pennine country ieb the 90s but saw the odd Leopard too. Much better than plastic shite but undeniably less friendly to non bus enthusiasts.

[oman5]

If it's still got an o.680, put a straight through exhaust on it. Then drive through town centres at 20mph in top playing "set off all the car alarms"

[Inspector Morose]

That was new cross hospital for me every hour.

 

Leopard silencers(the small straight through ones) fit on atlanteans too.

 

Other notable roars - Bristol RE. Sitting by the town hall in the late nineties was a bus spotters wet dream of sounds.

Early (pre war) London RT class. A barking exhaust note truly unique to that early batch.

 

Five cylinder Gardners. A weird staccato note with muffled roar.

 

The CIE Bombardier double deckers. GM two stroke with Alison box. Very angry sounding things and sadly all gone too.

 

For really vocal sound effects try the Devon General Regent (ROD???) owned by one of the Blackman clan. It's got no silencer at all. That can be heard for miles!

[Noel Tidybeard]

always liked the sound of the GOG***N leyland engined fleetlines of wmpte and the legendary ailsas

[messerschmitt owner]

It's been haunted by the ghost of Jocky Wilson

 

that's that fucking Fred West, that is!

[Matt]

I had about twelve, including four of those Alexander-bodied Leyland Leopards - HCS 793N, GCS 69V, PSX 188Y and PSX 189Y. Picked GCS 69V up from it's original owner with MOT for £500+vat back in the day.

 

ULS 330T was Midland's MPE330 though I think it spent time with Strathtay and Meffans so it'll be fairly pumped. That said I absolutely still would, those Leopards (in general, I was brought up in Western-Clydeside land) were the bus of my childhood and I really miss mine. They are rugged, aluminium bodied and framed so no rust, they look as cool as fuck.

 

What'd y'know about McEwans? Once or twice a year I see a McEwans bus it a livery that can only be described as diarrhea brown with yellow lettering and one yellow stripe down the side - Is someone moonlighting as a McEwans driver in an old coach?

 

Edit: I'm not really into the whole bus-spotting community but I see bits of pieces here & there and the knowledge surrounding any one vehicle seems to be pretty amazing. Pretty sure this is the bus I see , I wonder why they were running it around in a totally different livery. Seems to be deed now anyways.

 

MacEwans Coach Services Volvo B10M-55 Alexander-PS ( K745 DAO ) by stuartgillies91, on Flickr

[Split_Pin]

I grew up with these in Linlithgow, the town's Midland Bluebird depot had lots of these up until around 2000. ULS338T was part of the local fleet.

 

As Andy said, alloy body and frame and a big unstressed shire horse of an engine made many of these see 20 years plus service. Hopefully this will be saved.

[320touring]

Scotoshite Coaches

"your getting there is fuck all to do wi us, pal"

[brickwall]

It's been haunted by the ghost of Jocky Wilson

 

 

 

Looks more like a young Fred West