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Haifa century of Staffordshire sightings
| 题名： | Haifa century of Staffordshire sightings |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | ALAN MILIAR |
| 摘要： | Many readers of mature years will recognise Tim Machin's description of his youth. He is 60 this year, grew up in Brown Edge and Kidsgrove in a household that depended on buses, was attracted by the sights and sounds (especially of PMT's vee-engined Daimler Roadliners) that passed his bedroom window in Kidsgrove and on starting school found a friend who shared his interest. That friend was Martyn Hearson, who went on to preserve buses as well as spot and photograph them. Both left school to work for Berresfords Motors at Cheddleton and Machin has held clerical, managerial and driving posts with several operators in the area. They met girls who married them even after discovering that their future husbands' motoring holidays took them to "minute Welsh villages, seaside resorts in inclement weather and all sorts of places they'd never heard of" in search of more bus and coach garages than either probably believed could exist. Such is enduring love that Jill Machin typed up the text accompanying 180 almost exclusively colour pictures in this book. These have been taken since 1970 (the older ones taken by others) in an area from Stafford and Uttoxeter to the boundaries with Derbyshire, Cheshire and Shropshire. They include some vehicles with PMT and First Potteries, Stevensons and Berresfords, but sufficiently few to leave space for much else. Some appear in themed pairs (e.g. the same location years apart, similar types of vehicle), but the selection otherwise seems random, with a surprise with each turn of a page. The vehicles range from the commonplace of their time to the highly unusual, with a higher proportion of coaches than often populate bus books. The less usual include a Leyland Leopard rebodied by Willowbrook as a Warrior bus, a Volvo B10M with a replacement schoolbus body built (apparently not very well) in Macedonia, Dennis Dart and Volvo B6 coaches, an oddly proportioned PMT Knype-bodied Leyland Swift in PMT's own fleet, an Optare Alero and a Duple Viceroy-bodied Bedford VAM with petrol engine, a choice of propulsion that was unusual when Salopia of Whitchurch bought it in 1968 and surely added unnecessary running costs to the dance troupe in Leek which owned it in 1982. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | Buses |
| 卷： | 73 |
| 期： | 797 |
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