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I hope you will contiue to enjoy what we have to offer on these pages. I would still like to here your views and comments on how to improve the site.

Do you have any old photographs of our viecles if so then please post them to us and we will publish them on this web site with full credits given to the photographer.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

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1 Nov: Open Day. Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum, Lincoln. 01522-500566.

8 Nov: Dewsbury Bus Museum, Open Day.

8 Nov: South Yorkshire Transport Museum (former Sheffield Bus Museum), Open Day at Aldwarke premises.

15 Nov: Twilight Trolleybuses, The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Sandtoft, nr.Doncaster. 01724-711391

15 Nov: Vintage Bus Running Day, Bluebell Railway, Sheffield Park, Sussex.

27-28 Nov: London Transport Museum, Guided Tours at Acton Depot.

29 Nov: Annual Collectors Fair, model exhibitions, free bus service to city centre, Aston Manor Road Transport Museum. 0121-322-2298.

5 Dec: "Christmas Cracker", Fayre with bus and fire engine rides, Ipswich Transport Museum, Suffolk.

5 Dec: Ensignbus Vintage Bus Christmas Specials X55 (Upminster - Lakeside - Grays) and X80 (Grays -Lakeside - Bluewater - Northfleet - Gravesend).

5-6 December: Christmas Cracker, Manchester Museum of Transport, 0161-205-2122.

12-13 Dec: Santa Weekend, The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, Sandtoft, nr.Doncaster. 01724-711391

12-13 Dec: Oxford Bus Museum, Santa Weekend.

13 Dec: South Yorkshire Transport Museum (former Sheffield Bus Museum), Open Day at Aldwarke premises.

26 Dec (Boxing Day): Free bus service in Workington. Hourly 0930-1730 from Seaton Hunters Drive via bus & rail stations, Derwent Howe & Moorclose to Harrington Victoria Square. Plan to use Cumberland Leyland National in morning and Bristol VR in afternoon.

Not much happening this month so I have included events in December.

more information can be found on the Classic Buses web site

http://www.skylineaviation.co.uk/buses/events.html

I wish that I could start to bring good news on this bus but time and other commitments have prevented restoration to begin, it is begining to get on my nerves every time I see the hulk just sitting there week in week out.

The main thing is it will not be going the same way as our other vehicle 910UVT so for the time being so no news is good news.

Restoration could begin if I had a helping hand, a volunteer, a person with nothing to do on Sundays someone who is just a bit shy on coming forward. Does anyone know that person? Then please let me know in the useual way its our only hope.

951UVT Shows its bad side to the camera.

Could 2010 see the restoration restart? Now that RFR177P is now beginning to progress I might be able to have a good look at restarting 951UVT it has been waiting for far too long so fingers crossed.

Photographs taken at the much missed Abbey Park rally I would like to do a feature on this at a later date but I need the pics to do it. Clem Smith has promiced to have a browse through his collection and I am sure I will have a few but I would welcome contributions from visitors to this site, just pop them in an e-mail to me.

NEWS UPDATE 14-11-2009

910UVT .......... scrapping ongoing.....................................

New Aluminium Panels are on site at last.

Progress with new aluminium panels

See workshop for more details.

More new pics in Clems Corner.

Could 2010 be 951 UVT's year ? see below left.

With JHA227L out on Rally duty I had a chance to photograph a new vehicle to arrive in our barn. ExAlexander North 153 (GSO90V) Leyland Leopard fitted with Alexander Bodywork. The bus is undergoing a full overall and it is to be restored in the Yellow/Cream livery of Alexander. I am certain that thias fine vehicle will be a welcome edition on the Rally Fields soon.

When I first joined POPS, we were a frequent visitor to this event and the High Street would be full on both sides of the road from top to bottom with buses from all over the country many of the side roads would be brimming with PSV's and HGV's. There would be many car clubs and many other events going on to keep the public interested and not to mention hundreds of stalls. So I was supprised and disapointed this year as what few buses that were there was pushed up the top end. Was this just a one off as there was a new event held in Leeds or is it the sign of things to come, the high cost of fuel could be one reason as people seem to attend rallies more local to them. Let us hope that this event/rally will survive to live another day.

A view from the top deck.

910UVT

As can be seen from the photographs below scrapping is well under way and at the close of the day's proceedings 910 is now an open topper. I had a couple of spare hours today so out came the angle grinder and as seen in the following pics that the upper deck of Boris can be seen emerging.

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