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| Our first viewing. |
Hello and welcome to this blog about our renovations to this omnibus!!
Much to the delight of my partner and I, we've managed to acquire this rather funky old mid fifties Bedford bus, which we are intending to do up so as to be able to live in it while our first investment house is being built, hopefully later in the year. Aside from the fact that we can live in it when it is finished, a big reason for purchasing this bus was to have a project that we could do together, which I'm sure will have its trying moments at times, but overall will be an experience that we can both grow and learn from.
Anyway, about the bus itself.... As far as I know at the moment it's a mid 1950's Bedford truck chassis with a Sydwood Coaches bus body built on top. I haven't been able to find a chassis number on it yet so we can't really know for sure how old or what model it is, but from photos of other busses I've found, I'm pretty sure its approximately 1950's.
Overall it is in reasonable condition, with only some rust and a little rot in the timber framework here and there.
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| Seatless and brakeless but able to start. |
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| Thankfully the clock and fountain (jokingly referred to as The Urinal) were removed after purchase. |
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| Dad inspecting the lino floor, and the quirky war time paper clippings scattered on the roof. |
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| It has been decided that the feature thick glass ships window at the back of the bus will be removed (but kept for later use on another project). |
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| Debating the year, and having final discussions of the issue of transporting the bus to it's new residence 200 meters down the road. |
