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Alan M Watkins worked for a variety of bus
and coach companies from the 1950s onwards and has contributed a series of short
stories and reminiscences to the Ceased
Bus Operators discussion group.
They are reproduced here on Working
on the Buses with Alan's permission.
Alan's stories:
- Spotting days
- Becoming a Premier
Travel conductor
- Bill Ruffle - Premier
Travel chief mechanic, Haverhill depot
- An Inspector calls -
Premier Travel
- A week in the life of
HVE 402 - Premier Travel duties
- Premier Travel London
services
- It was Christmas Eve on
the buses
- More rural bus tales
(Premier Travel) (added to 27/12/11)
- Driving for City Coach
Company, Brentwood - a war-time tale (added to 27/12/11)
- MacBraynes memories (added to 22/2/11, 21/6/11,
6/7/11, 15/7/11, 7/8/11 and 27/12/11)
- Some
thoughts on joint operations
- Ticketing
Tales - Theobalds of Long Melford
- Sutherland
Transport & Trading
- Some
thoughts on duplication - City Coach Co and others
- More
Premier Travel memories (added
to 26/4/09, 20/6/09, 4/10/10, 10/11/10, 22/1/11, 5/2/12 and again 13/2/12)
- Bristol
SCs
- Eastern
Counties jottings
- Colchester
observations (including St
John’s St Bus Station memories)
- Rippingale of Gestingthorpe
- Conducting a 128 from Plymouth (Western
National)
- Driving a Bedford OB
- Passing my test/my
first driving job – more Bedford OB tales
- Lincolnshire Road Car
Company memories
- Corona Coaches, Sudbury
(Suffolk)
- The winter of ’47
– City carried on!
- Western National
conductor
- Outstations –
mainly Lincolnshire RCC & Eastern Counties
- A
modern day rural bus tale – conducting for Fords of Althorne
- Rail
replacement, M&GN style
- Old
Premier Travel drivers never retire (added 13 February 2012)
- Discovering
Premier Travel (added 11 March 2012)
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