Bus nostalgia

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Brill Lizzie
Very, very clever and how so right

Thanks Splott!

[coastie123]

Lizzie, I do like your political buses especially the Sorry bus as i have driven that!!

it's been very interesting reading this topic as i am a bus driver!!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Well, what a night and day of great politics!! 8-) 8-) 8-)

Trouble is the UK bus seems to have ended up like this:



Will the Lib Dems support the Conservatives, or will they support a (failed) Labour government, or will they manage to tip our UK Bus over the edge, with all the country's wealth going with it??!!

[The Red Baron]

Well, what a night and day of great politics!! 8-) 8-) 8-)

Trouble is the UK bus seems to have ended up like this:



Will the Lib Dems support the Conservatives, or will they support a (failed) Labour government, or will they manage to tip our UK Bus over the edge, with all the country's wealth going with it??!!

ahh the original italian job.

[splott]

Well, what a night and day of great politics!! 8-) 8-) 8-)

Trouble is the UK bus seems to have ended up like this:



Will the Lib Dems support the Conservatives, or will they support a (failed) Labour government, or will they manage to tip our UK Bus over the edge, with all the country's wealth going with it??!!

Well,a hung parliament has definitely " Blown the Bl**dy Doors Off" all the plans set by Labour and the Tories 

[The Red Baron]

Well, what a night and day of great politics!! 8-) 8-) 8-)

Trouble is the UK bus seems to have ended up like this:



Will the Lib Dems support the Conservatives, or will they support a (failed) Labour government, or will they manage to tip our UK Bus over the edge, with all the country's wealth going with it??!!

Well,a hung parliament has definitely " Blown the Bl**dy Doors Off" all the plans set by Labour and the Tories 

pmsl 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

We have now entered the territory of two party agreements, and their favourite transport is the "Two Way Bus", which gives them a chance to run their policies either on top or down below.  Whichever it is it can still run!!:

[Lizzie_Zoom]

.................and of course the talking parties will always need one of these; the London Bendy Bus:




...........like their mixed up policies, their bus will be the worst invention know to transport man!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

.................we seem so far away from the simple (perceived) single decked political policy of my childhood years when the common method of transport was a bus like this; a 1950 Bristol Duple bodied vehicle:




Why are things not as simple any more?

Could it be that I have grown up (a matter that can be debated!! ) and everythings just appears far more complicated??

I actually think I know less now than I did at 5 years!!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

How many on the OOF are old enough to remember a wonderful nostalgic scene like this, or maybe this precise scene, from 1950;  Sheffield:



8-) 8-)

[splott]

.................and of course the talking parties will always need one of these; the London Bendy Bus:




...........like their mixed up policies, their bus will be the worst invention know to transport man!

Well Lizzie the bendy bus may well be a rubbish invention but at least you know where its going.
Which is more than can be said about a Coalition government and the bus will last longer too

[splott]

.................we seem so far away from the simple (perceived) single decked political policy of my childhood years when the common method of transport was a bus like this; a 1950 Bristol Duple bodied vehicle:




Why are things not as simple any more?

Could it be that I have grown up (a matter that can be debated!! ) and everythings just appears far more complicated??

I actually think I know less now than I did at 5 years!!

Remember these coaches well
Trips to Blackpool and Southport. Your treat was a stick of Candy floss, half a crown to go on the Fairground.Also a trip to a Wimpey bar for a cup of Horlicks just before you went home, so you would fall asleep on the bus home.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

.................and of course the talking parties will always need one of these; the London Bendy Bus:




...........like their mixed up policies, their bus will be the worst invention know to transport man!

Well Lizzie the bendy bus may well be a rubbish invention but at least you know where its going.
Which is more than can be said about a Coalition government and the bus will last longer too

I don't know about that Splott :-/ :-/

If their policies are like the back of these buses when you are alongside them on the roads of London we will be confused!  Just when you think the back is going away from you, it suddenly decides to come towards you in a way that no artic trailer ever does!!

I have been 'frightened' on more than one occasion like this, thinking first I am completely safe in my car, then suddenly all is under threat!!

I hope the 'agreed' mixed party policits are not the same.  If they are we are all in danger ;

[Peachy]

Is the middle bus in pic a replica of Lizzie's MUD?

http://www.oxford-chiltern-bus-page.co.uk/upload%20080609/M%20Beckett/Cheltenham%202009%20Whittle%20PUJ781%20with%20WW%20WKG284%20240509%20M%20Beckett.jpg

[Seth]

Good on yer Di ........ 

No, that isn't a replica of Lizzie's old coach ......
However, that one has fond memories for me though.
I used to go to school on that very coach, and it was one of four identical Leyland Tiger Cubs from the erstwhile Llynfi Motor Services (of Maesteg), concern. All four were new to Whittles of Highley, Shropshire, and had Burlingham 'Seagull' 41-seat bodies, and were registered OUJ 207/8 and PUJ 781/3.


Mrs Sethsmate also used to travel on it to go dancing at Cardiff's Top Rank every Saturday night.
She was a 'miss' with 'curves in all the right places' in those days!


Great times indeed ........