Celebrating 100 Years of King Alfred Buses with FoKAB 

Superb video. Well done to Mr James Freeman & all the FoKAB members past, present & future. Keep up the wonderful work that you all do. Here’s to the next 100 years. 🍾🇦🇺🇦🇺 Best wishes to you all from Australia.

A thoroughly professional film. Most enjoyable.

Wonderful memories evoked from this of my time as a student of King Alfred's College Winchester ( teacher training college) I was fortunate in my second year to be trained to take my PSV test on a Leyland PD2 never having driven anything larger than a tractor and certainly no experience of working a crash gear box, I was amazed to pass my test after 6 hours of tuition which enabled me to drive the coaches and mini buses mostly for college work, such as teaching practice runs and sports teams. I also fitted in ( not sure how my college work was done) some school runs, including one adventure driving a tiger cub possibly one of the MAA 's greatly overloaded with children. I had to come down to first gear climbing Stanmore Hill, but that didn't work out, so the bus came to a stop halfway up the hill. The problem was that with such a large load and a dodgy clutch I could not get moving again as the clutch kept slipping, so all the children who were standing had to get off and walk up the hill ( which they did with no complaints - they must have been used to such things) which enabled the clutch to bite and the venerable bus to reach its destination.

An excellent presentation - very best wishes for the future and I hope that you find a permanent home for those wonderful buses in the not too distant future.