The Green and Cream bus shown here is a Leyland National registered in 1974. Drivers who have been in the job longer than I speak of them with a mixture of love, fear, admiration, nostalgia and lots of other emotions. Me, I have never driven one so I don't know what they are all about. This one, which was parked in our bus park one rainy day last week belongs to a gentleman called James. He is based in Exeter and has several photos of former Devon General Buses and owns one or two. Click here for a link to his site if you like old buses.
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If only you'd posted this picture on Thursday! That was the 20th anniversary of deregulation. The LN was still a bedrock of those far off days. As I recall, they had two annoying habits: the air was slow to build and you couldn't always easily close the passenger door; and the microswitch at the rear would play up preventing the engine from starting. A well aimed driver's boot at the appropriate rear panel would solve the latter problem while 30 seconds hard revving would deal with the former.
Talking of Dereg, see here for stuff mentioning Torquay 20 years ago:
Images of Deregulation
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