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Bus Built For Wigan
Bus Built For Wigan
Photo: Paul Hilton
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Item #: 254
The Jaguar car was the MDs which later bacame the runabout

Comment by: Fred Mason on 18th October 2009 at 13:14

in cherry and white, of course.

Comment by: watchalot on 2nd December 2009 at 21:12

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

Comment by: harry on 20th September 2011 at 19:56

pity you did not have the management to keep the place going

Comment by: george hurst on 4th August 2020 at 16:38

Sadly successive Labour and Tory Governments decided the fate of Municipal Transport Undertakings, I left in 1974 when it became part of SELNEC.

Comment by: Bill davies jnr on 16th December 2020 at 10:21

Think the jag was dave cherries if i recall . Worked there from 77----82

Comment by: Harry Hemsley on 11th February 2024 at 21:51

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

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