Acquitted itself very well in the '68 London - Sydney marathon too.
As did the Terrier.
I’m quite junior compared to many here, but even I remember “getting your ticket clipped” (hence clippies)
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I’m quite junior compared to many here, but even I remember “getting your ticket clipped” (hence clippies)
In my case it was usually my ear!
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…with a Setright ticket machine IIRC, slung round the shoulders of the clippy. Somewhere in the bottom of a tin, I have a Nottingham City Transport trolleybus ticket commemorating some memorable journey I made as a child. But I’ve forgotten why it was memorable. And I’ve forgotten where I put the tin.
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Not a Lodekka, but you can call it Dennis:
Off-topic, but did you ever read car magazines in the 70s and 80s? If so, LJK Setright might ring a bell and it turns out he was a scion of the Setright ticket machine. Utterly useless information, and I’m full of it. 
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He was lucky to get out alive
Yes it’s a miracle nobody died. Full of passengers and he fairly went for it. It was Golden Coaches from Ballarat.
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Passengers on board too? Blimey.
Did time ? he’s lucky it wasn’t with an undertaker
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Both Gardner powered perhaps? I get the impression that the VR is off to the scrap yard, but I don’t know.
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Two more, in the same vein:
the buses in the background of the 2nd pic look like a South Notts PD2 and a Nottm City Transp Fleetline.
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Following the 1982 schedule revision PVS of Barnsley had the contract to scrap surplus RM buses and salvage whatever parts were serviceable for return to LT, which accounts for the RMs near the recovery lorries. Prior to then in RT days, legend had it that RTs only ever suffered punctures on the road.
Quote ‘Manchester & Salford A Century of Municipal Transport’. M Eyre & C Heaps:
In 1946 the City of Salford’s Transport fleet was in a dire condition following the ravages of WW2. So bad in fact that it was considered the worst fleet in the country.The Salford Transport Committee looked around for a sucessor to the retiring General Manger John Blakemore. They were lucky to find Charles W Baroth who quickly achieved a remarkable transformation to every aspect of the renamed, reliveried, newer fleet of Salford City Transport.
- “At the time there was little love lost between Salford and Manchester Corporation Transport. The latter had many Crossley buses in their fleet which proved next to impossible to start during the bitter 1947 winter. The press got hold of the fact that the Corporation had resorted to a Fordson tractor fitted with a front buffer of bus seats to push start casualties and published a picture of the ‘Bus Push’. Baroth had a picture of this on his desk for many years.”*
"A little later the new General Manager was embarrassed to find that Salford had an old Dennis double decker converted to a van and displaying the word SERVICE. ’ And just what kind of service does that offer?’ enquired Baroth; in response he was shown a large heavy towing chain that lived inside.
’ No bus which bears my name, let alonethat of the City Of Salford, and which requires a device like that to move it, shall henceforth be allowed to leave the garage ’ he declared."
“In the matter of a few months it was clear to staff that Salford’s buses were something to be proud of and for the next 20- odd years they were not to be seen top fail in public. If on did, the instructions were that if possible the the crew should park it neatly (‘push it if necessary’), preferably in a side street, with its indicator set to PRIVATE, as if it were a school bus. It would then be recovered after dark by Salford spotless ex WD AEC Matador. Said to have seen wartime service at Narvik in 1940, its peacetime duty was soon confined to leading the Mayor of Salford’s Annual Carnival Parade.”
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