Ashamed of being a WAMmer?

View · by **Hayley** » 07 Oct 2006, 12:20

Spending most of my life in the car, I see a lot of trucks and have huge fantasies of yoghurt or treacle tankers (there seem to be loads of those) somehow leaking and pouring their contents into my open-topped C&C (it's the company's car so let's fill it with mollasses!).

Submarines terrify me. Bill too. He doesn't even like lifts! I've never understood his love of buses. I'm guessing it's a childhood thing. Though I did once give someone a blow-job on the top deck of one when I was about 17. Ooops too much information.

Hayley

View · by **andy250** » 07 Oct 2006, 20:05

Actually, Claymore has just reminded me their is a Bus group in Bolton.
I think its the Bolton bus society or something. They have all the old stuff they have in the town square every now and then. Go on Bill what is the Atlantean??? or something like that use to be part of gm buses. Claymore do you remember Crossville.. They use to run through Whiston when I was a kid.

Better now, I bet I start going on about it in the pub, and everyone will tell me how sad i am, then they'll ask for some more messy pics they always do.

regards

Andy
(bottle of Bud please!!)

View · by **BillShipton** » 08 Oct 2006, 01:03

The Atlantean was a bus made by Leyland (I believe). Birmingham had loads in the 70s. Crossville was a bus company before they all became part of the National Bus Co covering Liverpool as I remember. When I was a student as coach travel was cheap, companies like Crossville, Yorkshire Traction, Green Line and Southern Vectis were still around.

And yes I do get called sad in the pub - though if you talk the same way about old motorbikes there for some reason you are a God!

View · by **andy250** » 08 Oct 2006, 01:47

Bill you can never play Disastermind you'd get all the questions right!!!!!

Unlesss a wrong anwer, gives us the chance to flan Hayley.

regards

andy

View · by **Lizzie_Claymore** » 08 Oct 2006, 02:48

Indeed the Atlanteans were by Leyland who had nomenclature which named their double deck chassis series after Greek Gods & mythology etc. Hence the Titan, Olympian, Atlantean etc.

They named their single deck bus chassis series after large cats. Hence the Lion, Tiger, Tiger Cub, Leopard etc.

Lorries were named after members of the animal kingdom etc. Hence Bison, Buffalo, Octopus (the 8-wheelers) etc.

Yes I remember Crosville, Andy. They were on the Wirral end of things for me, though. I was in real Ribble country myself though Liverpool city centre was always where things met - the MPTE, Crosville and Ribble services converging. I think it's still possible to obtain the history of Crosville called "State Owned Without Tears". Did Warrington or Halton used to operate out to Whiston or was it just Crosville?

Come to think of it wouldn't you still have been just within the PTE area or was Whiston just outside Merseyside. Can't remember off the top of my head, which is somewhat unusual as postcodes / boundaries is another of my interests. (Oh dear ... did I say that out loud?)

By the way, have a look at this to whet your appetite over what's going to be happening the day after our Warrington meet! That pic shows an early Atlantean. The 201 group mentioned as hoping to join in with cross river services have the world's first Altlantean (Wallasey No1) and the world's last (Merseyside PTE No1070). That's quite a coup! (... and their restorations are immaculate too.)

View · by **andy250** » 09 Oct 2006, 23:44

Just a quick line to thanks Claymore for finding a pic for me from when i was 7 - 8 Bill this man really does know his buses, am a bit rusty on me trains but am prepared to chat again. Thanks Claymore you really do know what you are talking about and also appear to have some real passion for it.

Thanks for the other photos as well.

kind regards

Andy
(that pics takes me back a while, post it for Bill then he can see what we where chatting about also the gmpte bus.)

View · by **dirtydids** » 09 Oct 2006, 23:50

I can well remember squeezing into a small medieval style window on Hornsey railway bridge doing trainspotting as a kid, used to love it when the A4 's came thundering up the straight from Palace Gates heading into Kings Cross, ahhhhhh those were the days, trains aint the same no more.

View · by **Lizzie_Claymore** » 10 Oct 2006, 00:06

andy250 wrote:(that pics takes me back a while, post it for Bill then he can see what we where chatting about also the gmpte bus.)

There you go. Andy was trying to remember what he'd have caught into Liverpool. In the early years, it would have been a Guy Arab with Northern Counties bodywork (pneumatically-operated door) and later a Leyland (formerly Daimler) Fleetline, like the ones shown:

As I've just said to Andy, I'm no expert on all this stuff compared to some of the cranks and gricers I've come across but I do like all forms of transport so trains, buses, old cars etc. ... all good stuff, in moderation (like most things are)!

View · by **Spinynorman and Frilly** » 10 Oct 2006, 07:11

Fantastic pics!

Love the top one where the red paint is all over and in public too! :shock:

What did people who were passing by say!

Could you do the next set in a paddling pool with a small black bikini on?

Oh hang on just noticed they were buses. Sorry about that. :oops:

View · by **Lizzie_Claymore** » 10 Oct 2006, 09:59

Arf!

View · by **Hayley** » 10 Oct 2006, 12:22

Okay, that's probably enough bus chat.

Unless you want me to set up a Bus Only Forum

Hayley

View · by **DecadentDoll** » 10 Oct 2006, 12:36

Spinynorman and Frilly wrote:Fantastic pics!

Love the top one where the red paint is all over and in public too! What did people who were passing by say!

Could you do the next set in a paddling pool with a small black bikini on?

Oh hang on just noticed they were buses. Sorry about that.

ahahahahahhahahahahha

haha i almost spat out my cereal, excellent.

Yeah, desist the bus chat, the thread was beginning to get tedious.

View · by **BillShipton** » 10 Oct 2006, 17:15

Is this forum imposing an anti-bus code? Is it because buses might frighten off newcomers to WAM? If so, I shall get all stroppy and send endless posts and PMs to everyone that this discriminates against bus-loving sploshers.

And, damn, I'd just shot a video of a bus conductress rolling in the mud wearing a Gibson ticket machine...

PS Tut-tut, really DD, eating cereal at lunchtime, anybody would think you were in show biz or something.

View · by **piemeplease** » 10 Oct 2006, 17:18

Well she is a star Bill.

View · by **DecadentDoll** » 10 Oct 2006, 17:54

BillShipton wrote:Is this forum imposing an anti-bus code? Is it because buses might frighten off newcomers to WAM? If so, I shall get all stroppy and send endless posts and PMs to everyone that this discriminates against bus-loving sploshers.

And, damn, I'd just shot a video of a bus conductress rolling in the mud wearing a Gibson ticket machine...

PS Tut-tut, really DD, eating cereal at lunchtime, anybody would think you were in show biz or something.

stop it! this time i nearly spat out my tea.

Anti Bus code lol... yeah fuck the bus lovers says I *chuckle chuckle*

only joking!

I always wanted to do a remake of On the Buses.

Ahhh showbiz. Coco pops at lunchtime! What next? A limo to the cornershop?

Only time can tell!

DD x x x

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