Buses, coaches, & lorries

Walton man:
The BBMS takes me back a bit. I recall their garage was at the bottom of Club St when independant.
The old Bamber Bridge and Walton le Dale people always gave their trade to BBMS. “Let t’Ribble buz pass and we’ll get wir own buz”. Was quite a struggle climbing up London road hill sometimes.

The picture of the old coach station in Preston also awoke the brain. Used to catch buses regularly from the old bus station and on a Wednesday morning caught a White Lady through to Blackburn. What was the reason for the White Lady bus? I never found out.

Thanks for the memories.

Hi Walton Man, The Ribble “White Lady” buses were a double deck coach, fitted with coach type seats,
and luggage space, and were mainly used on “Express” journeys, for example, Manchester to Blackpool,
Liverpool to Skipton etc. The early “White Lady” coaches were 2 batches of PD Leylands, and the
later ones were Leyland Atlantean. The Standerwick double deck coaches also on Leyland Atlantean
chassis were known officially as “Gay Hostess”, as well as coach seats and luggage space, they had a
small kitchen servery, and a hostess who served the passengers with hot snacks and drinks.
These vehicles were mainly used on the Lancashire to London journeys. I don’t think that they would
be called a “Gay Hostess” today. :wink: :wink: Regards, Ray Smyth.