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General Discussion Area / Re: Bus nostalgia
« on: 21 June 2010, 20:36:03 »
Well, I don't know where MUD975 is today, but I used to own it until about 1987.
What you have posted about it being at the Mid-Hants Railway at Ropley is correct, but after our group relocated to Bittern, Bristol, the bus was towed to Peter Moor's yard near Woolwich, in 1986. About a year later they were told to leave the yard in Woolwich, and I had a phone call from Peter to say he could not re-home our bus, and that the back end was very rotten, and the gear box could not be fixed, so regrettably I agreed to it being scrapped.
That was the end of the story for me, until I had a call from a friend in Bristol tonight, and the discovery of a picture of MUD975 on Photobucket.
http://s282.photobucket.com/albums/kk247/lizziefreeman/?action=view¤t=scan1.jpg#
Now, I have no idea where, or when this picture was taken, but it's post my ownership. I can see the Chiltern Queens lettering has been removed from the side, only leaving the the logo in the circle on the side. The passenger side window has some signs stuck on the top passenger window, and there seems to be some lettering over the front grill. All these things were not done by me, so this picture seems to indicate MUD975 survived post scrapping in 1987.
That's all I can add, but I could look out some old pictures of MUD975 when she was in my ownership.
What you have posted about it being at the Mid-Hants Railway at Ropley is correct, but after our group relocated to Bittern, Bristol, the bus was towed to Peter Moor's yard near Woolwich, in 1986. About a year later they were told to leave the yard in Woolwich, and I had a phone call from Peter to say he could not re-home our bus, and that the back end was very rotten, and the gear box could not be fixed, so regrettably I agreed to it being scrapped.
That was the end of the story for me, until I had a call from a friend in Bristol tonight, and the discovery of a picture of MUD975 on Photobucket.
http://s282.photobucket.com/albums/kk247/lizziefreeman/?action=view¤t=scan1.jpg#
Now, I have no idea where, or when this picture was taken, but it's post my ownership. I can see the Chiltern Queens lettering has been removed from the side, only leaving the the logo in the circle on the side. The passenger side window has some signs stuck on the top passenger window, and there seems to be some lettering over the front grill. All these things were not done by me, so this picture seems to indicate MUD975 survived post scrapping in 1987.
That's all I can add, but I could look out some old pictures of MUD975 when she was in my ownership.
