Wiganers at Work
Northern Counties
6 CommentsPhoto: Paul Hilton
Item #: 254
i actualy drove that very bus early 70s it woudn't pull skin of a rice pudding ask any of the drivers that drove it it used to take 5 mins to get going if it was booked out to you in depot it spoiled your day it wasn't as fast as a mexican donkey
pity you did not have the management to keep the place going
Sadly successive Labour and Tory Governments decided the fate of Municipal Transport Undertakings, I left in 1974 when it became part of SELNEC.
Think the jag was dave cherries if i recall . Worked there from 77----82
I also drove that bus i agree they were not very fast, the new idea of middle doors was good I worked as a conductor 67-70 then passed for driving till finishing in 2005 .
Many good memories and tough ones. and varied characters like fag ash lil, Harry bat and maggie muscle, ciggy nick names off course you name it we met them all.
Harry
the amount of people you met from the worst to the best meant you were never bored