Jonathan Welch took to the road behind the wheel of two classic buses recently, as he recounts
Most of the time these days, my time is spent driving a laptop, preparing CBW’s pages ready for our next issue to go to press. But sometimes, I escape from behind the desk and have the pleasure of doing some driving. Anyone who watches our social media feeds might have seen a post from the north west of England a week or two ago as a teaser of one feature to come, but I’ve also been out and about with a couple of other classic vehicles recently, and using my prerogative as Editor, I thought I’d share some of those trips this week.
My first was over the weekend of 15 and 16 June, when I was one of four drivers taking buses to the two-day Castle Fraser steam and vintage vehicle fair near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire. A pleasant 25-minute, 11 mile drive from their base at Alford, the vehicles belonged to the combined fleet of the First Group Heritage Trust and the Aberdeen & District Transport Preservation Trust, collectively housed under the banner of The Bus Collection at Alford at premises shared with the Grampian Transport Museum.
On the road that day were Albion PMA28 RG 1173, Aberdeen Corporation Transport’s bus 79, dating from 1930; Aberdeen Corporation AEC Swift JRS 22F, new in 1968; Grampian Regional Transport 1975 Leyland Leopard HSO 61N; and double-deck Daimler CVG6 CRG 325C, new to Aberdeen Corporation in 1965.
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