You wait for ages…

What’s this? No posts for 4 years, then 2 in one day? A bit like buses 2 come along at once.

Which is the reason for this post. Besides the interest in railways, I also have a passion for old buses, particularly those of the former Ribble Motor Services of my home town of Preston. (Long since subsumed into the horror that is Stagecoach Buses – highway robbers if there ever were).

Both of my parents worked for Ribble from around 1947 to 1979 in my dad’s case, although mum left when I was born, some years before that. I have a soft spot for the original Ribble company and I am just about old enough to remember the old red & ivory livery, before the National Bus Company Poppy Red came in around 1969/70.

I am not the only one who holds fond memories of Ribble Motors and some enthusiasts have saved some of their historic vehicles to be enjoyed by current and future generations. Every so often there is a running day, sometimes in conjunction with the British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland.

Based in part of the old Leyland Vehicles works, that was the origin of many of Ribble’s buses, who were loyal customers of Leyland for many years.

One such event took place in Leyland over the August Bank holiday, and while I have published the pictures over on RMWeb, I haven’t shown any of them on here.

This is outside the BCVM in Leyland, it’s Ribble 1568, a 1936 Leyland Cheetah with Brush bodywork. Almost 90 years old, it shows the beautiful lines of a classic bus of that era.

More pictures and words over on RMWeb https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/122692-for-those-interested-in-old-buses-and-coaches/?do=findComment&comment=5927794