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.
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.
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.
Some kids had to get off the bus and walked up the hill...and a teacher has to drive the bus...It's really hard for us who didn't go through that period of time, to image that!
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.
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.
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.
Some kids had to get off the bus and walked up the hill...and a teacher has to drive the bus...It's really hard for us who didn't go through that period of time, to image that!