"Terry Harper" wrote in message ...
"Alan Watkins" wrote in message
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Oh, what happy memories this brought back! Workmen's weeklies!!

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What a super lot of reminiscences, Alan. I could almost smell the Woodbines.

I spent 3 months serving His Majesty at RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey, and spent
several Wednesdays visiting the Infirmary in S****horpe to have a sprained
wrist checked. I had slipped on our highly polished barrack room floor:-)

Transport to and fro was by the recently acquired Enterprise and Silver Dawn
service, with some in Lincolnshire green and some in the original red
livery.

We also had a trip home for Christmas1951 in an Albion coach (not a Nimbus,
but a 4-cylinder beast with a full front and not much urge) which dropped me
at home about 4 a.m. I can't recall who operated it, but it was fairly local
to the top end of Lincolnshire.

I remember RAF Kirton Lindsey although not as early as 1951! Service
103 2/11d return by the early 1960's. Last bus Saturday at 11
p.m. was three double deckers.

That was Road Car's problem: massive "peaks" at awkward hours and
nothing in between.

When I was sent to Louth depot one Christmas I discovered that the 4
p.m. Louth-Grimsby Service 50 on a Thursday (market day at Louth) was
three double deckers and and a saloon. Louth only had two double
deckers and one was at Grimsby at that time coming "back" to Louth so
the three duplicates were provided by Grimsby with massive dead
mileage.

Kind regards,
Alan M. Watkins