CWK205 (2009)

Talking of "BAMMOT", this Coventry Transport Daimler Fleetline (PDU 135M) is now Preserved (by Geoff Hodgekinson) and is kept over at the Bus Museum in Wythall !!! If you go onto "Flickr" (the photo website !) and click on forum member Graham Bailey's "Coventry Transport Buses" website, in his photo gallery there is a super photo of a lovingly restored "135" pictured over at Wythall !!! (maybe McSporran can do a link to it from here ???)

The photo i've enclosed here shows 135 when only a few months old and is seen in Upper Well Street approaching the Ringroad, back in 1973 !!!

I have attached a link to the website. I hope that you enjoy looking through.
Graham.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/covtrans/

I couldn't locate the photo you mention but there are several here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48950471@N02/5084276747
http://www.flickr.com/photos/salford_ian/4657214147
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33109/5075743815
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eagle50043/5547770402
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quicksilve ... 5808999646

The bus even has its own wikipedia page, albeit in Chinese:
http://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96 ... 282%29.jpg

Thankyou McSporran for putting some links on to show photo's of 135, as you did actually find the photo in question that i was on about, plus also one that i'd not even seen before ??? (A nice view of it coming along Chapel Lane with quite a full load !).

Thanks also to Graham for quickly putting the Link on to his "Coventry Transport Buses" website, as it's well worth clicking on to and i'd urge everyone to do so !!! A look through this photo gallery will certainly bring back alot of Memories to, especially for people on this Forum who once worked on Coventry's buses and who were lucky enough to have been behind the wheel of the many Buses pictured !!! Then again, it will also bring back happy memories for all of us Passengers to !!!LOL.

Geoff does not have a computer so he won't be able to read this but I know just how much hard work and money he has put into 135 in the 22 years he has owned it and he should be rightly proud of what he had achieved with it. Virtually all the restoration, with the exception of the repaint , has been carried out by him, mostly outdoors in all weathers, sometimes at great personal risk. On 2 occassions he has fallen almost the full height of the bus sustaining injuries needing hospital attendance!

When 135 left Coventry in 1986 it ended up at a small outfit at some unpronounceable location on Anglesey. It became surplus in 1989, so in late July Geoff and I had a trip there to see it, he decided he would take it on to restore to original condition and so on the weekend of November4/5 1989 we went to collect it. The weekend was particulaly cold and Geoff's Maestro had no heater which wasn't a good start, then a low bridge at Conway (pre dual carriageway days)scuppered our plans of an easy return on the A55. We collected the bus (also no working heaters) and I followed him via A5 to Bets y Coed then up to a pre arranged overnight stop at a farm on the A55. We zipped down to Rhyl to find the only restaurant still open, then back to the farm (no heat in the room, bit of a pattern emerging here!)
Next morning my turn to drive. Beautiful day and a superb run along A55, Liverpool and The Mersey visable to our left. Minor scare in Ellesmere, arrived at a mini roundabout a bit faster than I planned, no power steering so ended up standing up to haul the wheel round and avoid the railings around the island!
Once back in Coventry we called at Wheatley St garage to ask advice about the non working heater, amazingly not one of the staff on duty knew it was an ex Coventry vehicle that had only left 3 years previously!

It spent some years in the open at DeCourceys yard at Baginton before Geoff got secure parking at Wythall where it now resides