AS in the Community - Sunday 20th October: Truckers Rest A5 Brekkie Meet + Aldridge Bus Museum Running Day

[hairnet]

Very compact and bijou rodney

[kirton]

Sad to be missing this as I much enjoyed previous excuses to indulge in healthy eating in great company, and the auction contest

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, hairnet said:

Very compact and bijou rodney

Is that the Truckers hotel up the road? I stayed there before it was alright

[brownnova]

4 hours ago, hairnet said:

Filter the shit cars 😛

I wish it was the cars I was working on! 

[bangernomics]

Not back in the UK until the 27th! Is this on purpose? I need a decent bacon sarnie more than anyone!!!

[Floatylight]

On 16/10/2024 at 18:48, chaseracer said:

How does this work for shiters?

Truckers Rest from around 0830 for a leisurely breakfast.  Admire chod, fighting off envious civilians.  Head off when we feel like it to lick some buses in Aldridge (about 10 miles away).

Yes! See you there at 8.30

[Six-cylinder]

The passengers have bottled out, my more interesting cars have bottled out, but I will be there.

[Lord Sterling]

Here in the Jag. Anyone else here yet? Come say Hi.

Bloody miserable day.

[hairnet]

Burp

[bub2006]

Oh shit,I completely forgot today was the day. Bollocks. 

[hairnet]

Nerds in the bus go round and round

[hairnet]

Youll nevah take me alive coppah

[hairnet]

[hairnet]

All the window lickers are at the front

 

@Six-cylinder

 

🤣

[hairnet]

After 40 mins on an aul knacker

Need this

[hairnet]

Ahhh

Sushi

Tea

Cake

 

Northwich

[hairnet]

fu king lol at we pulled up at some light to turn right

a modern single decker pulls up and the chap driving is laughing

yeah hes got auto and pas

the double decker - pull from nowt in any gear but not quick but will do 40 mph forever as long as no hills  (bit like the 108 )

wtf is up with all the aul biffas turned up for brekky and half of them went home

cocoa time is in the evening ffs

 

[hairnet]

oh and question for the locals

aston manor???

so its not that far from cannock (staffs)

but its technically part of birmingham (walsall)

but aldridge? and 01543 phone no? (isnt that towards leics?)

yes the bus was slow and there was much rain

[hairnet]

good to see that chris again

mo - such a tart

haha at the locals that went back to bed

 

[Lord Sterling]

Top notch day chaps, I even got to meet the legendary @hairnet 😲 😂

Anyway, was driving home when a neighbour asked for help with fetching a sofa local, as I had the Vectra waiting for me at home, I decided it'd be a good idea to get it out and give it a wash given all the road debris it's picked up from Leicestershire jaunt yesterday, so Vectra was taken out, washed and sofa picked up and delivered.

Anyway, some pics;

Where Walle Hairnet...

A brass band appeared when we came back from our bus ride.

Model/toy cars.

I wasn't planning on buying anything but seeing the stall.....

Yeah,

[hairnet]

5 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

 

Y U TAKE PIC OV FAT OLD MAN

 

 

@cms206 will drop his

 

A brass band appeared when we came back from our bus ride.

 

did a runner as saw them coming while having a brew with chris

 

 

[Floatylight]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

oh and question for the locals

aston manor???

so its not that far from cannock (staffs)

but its technically part of birmingham (walsall)

but aldridge? and 01543 phone no? (isnt that towards leics?)

yes the bus was slow and there was much rain

So 01543 = Cannock & Lichfield

Walsall - on its own, not part of Birmingham or Sandwell.

Didn't go back to bed was going to work on the van but ended up tidying the garage, good to see you all.

[Six-cylinder]

On today’s trip to the Aldridge Transport Museum I managed to try 4 different buses. There had 3 routes so I did the Chasewater route twice.

 

Bus 1. Was the 1954 Daimler, It was a great experience but the driver had to work very hard with the steering.

Bus 2. Was the Leyland leopard and I really liked that. When I was at school a local coach company had one with a different body.

Bus 3. Ex Coventry Dennis trident. It was a bit broken in part of the exhaust had fallen off and was very noisy with vibration. In the condition it was in it was unpleasant to ride in.

Bus 4. Was the Ex Birmingham City Transport Leyland PD2 – best bus of the day by a mile for me. It looked good,  the driver was steering it very comfortably. It also rode nicely and looked good.

 

Really I needed a bus educator to gen me up on what I was looking at.

[Inspector Morose]

7 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Bus 1. Was the 1954 Daimler, It was a great experience but the driver had to work very hard with the steering.

One of two special lightweight Birmingham 'standards' built to examine if lighter built buses could save money on fuel. This Daimler was the lighter weight CSG5 model instead of the usual six cylinder, preselect transmission version the Birmingham usually ran.

Both lightweights, the Leyland and many, many more (prototype BMMO D9, anyone?) Were saved by Bob Shaw, a WMPTE body man who had the foresight to go round and save this stuff while he still could. He even went along the Severn Valley and saved various holiday homes that wee once pre-war mega rare stuff.

Sadly he suffered a breakdown in the late 80s and a lot of his stuff was lost as he'd completely lost track of what he had and where it was.

What he still had is still an amazing amount of rare, unusual and downright unbelievable buses of the front engined era.