Keeping the wheels turning

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Stuart Ladner: ‘There’s no question that as a department, Engineering has modernised its outlook’. GARETH EVANS

Stuart Ladner is First Kernow Engineering Manager running a busy department that makes best use of the resources available to it, but he still finds time for special projects such as converting nine double-deckers to part open-top as he outlines to Andy Izatt

“We’ve just had a very interesting bus arrive in the yard,” explained Stuart Ladner, First Kernow’s Engineering Manager as we started talking at Camborne garage where he’s based. “It’s a bike bus conversion we’re doing for GWR (Great Western Railway) that will be used on rail replacement work. First UK Bus will operate it on behalf of the railway company.[…]

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