Just caught this video being released, and it was enjoyable viewing! What a wonderful story to share with this gentleman finally having a drive of his late father’s bus! More of this content please!! 😁
Hi, the Manchester Museum of Transport look after the vehicle is owned by Tfgm, my Dad drove the vehicle in Wigan Corporation days and with GMT, so that’s the connection
These use to go up castle hill hindley as numbers 3a and 3 b one used go up ladies lane and terminate at Hindley station the other turned at wakes pub or hollins rd great bus listen to that gearbox .
I like how buses have their own distinct sounds that you can still remember decades later. I was born in the late 90s and still remember the sounds of a ZF or Voith Automatic
I'm from Wigan and remember the corporation buses, all Leylands and after 1955 bodied in town by Massey and Northern Counties: Double deckers 1950-1972 PD2 rear entrance JP8300-8329, AEK501-512, CEK837-841, DEK105-113, DJP751-759, PD3 front entrance EJP501-510, GJP8-19, HEK705-707, HJP1-11, PD2 front entrance JJP502-509, KEK739-750, AEK1-10B, DEK2-3D, DEK4-7E, FEK1-9F Atlantean dual door (short) FJP566G, GJP2-10G, (long) KJP20-31J, NEK1-10K. Single deckers 1952-1970 Leyland Royal Tiger, JP9061-9064, AEK513-516, BJP364, Leyland Tiger Cub DEK534-535, JJP501, Leyland Panther Cub, DJP468E, EEK1F, Leyland Panther, HJP950-961H. By 1978 when all the other ex Wigan buses were in GMT orange and white, this one, HEK705 remained in corporation livery.
