Many know my more recent genre Buses and Girls photography as those earlier buses I really like have all gone so now I enjoy my bus hobby more for the photography. As well as being an artist I owned a small transport business before I retired but today I have a little job too driving a minibus dong a school run to Wolverhampton in the afternoon and occasionally other jobs. It gets me out and about and satisfies my childhood ambition to drive a bus.
Sunday 26 April 2020
Hampson of Oswestry Bristol LH BNU 674G
Oswestry had a small Independent who operated a town service with a number of interesting vehicles over the years including this Bristol LH which had formerly been with Midland General.
I have a feeling that destination blind is the one it had in when purchased from Midland General (or perhaps it would have been Trent by the time it was sold; it looks like the Trent typeface).
Interesting that they've chosen to use the letter H (for Hampsons, I presume) at the start of the service number, no doubt to make it clear that it wasn't a Crosville bus, all their services in the area being in the D series. I think Crosville used H for Birkenhead. Or was it Runcorn/Widnes?
I have a feeling that destination blind is the one it had in when purchased from Midland General (or perhaps it would have been Trent by the time it was sold; it looks like the Trent typeface).
ReplyDeleteInteresting that they've chosen to use the letter H (for Hampsons, I presume) at the start of the service number, no doubt to make it clear that it wasn't a Crosville bus, all their services in the area being in the D series. I think Crosville used H for Birkenhead. Or was it Runcorn/Widnes?
Yes Ross the locals would look at the H and think Hampson. Crosville used H in Liverpool and Warrington and F for Birkenhead.
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