Heritage Fleet

[Westy]

In the absence of a picture currently, I was trying to place what 3997 looked like.

Is it the same as the picture of 3983 on page 23 of the Malcolm Keeley 'West Midlands' book from 1988?

[Tony]

In the absence of a picture currently, I was trying to place what 3997 looked like.

Is it the same as the picture of 3983 on page 23 of the Malcolm Keeley 'West Midlands' book from 1988?

There's pictures on the main site from last  Wednesday

[Westy]

There's pictures on the main site from last  Wednesday

I see.

Were all the ex open toppers 3867, 4069 & the Metrobus scrapped upon withdrawal, or did any pass into presavation?

What's the chance of an open topper in future, or does the unpredictable UK weather knock that on the head?

(Convertable open topper maybe?)

[midlandred2003]

Not sure of time or place.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127014871@N06/46297735191/in/dateposted-public/

[B.C Driver]

4069 still survives, albeit in Spain I think.

[dingding]

We had a few Jumbos at Acocks Green mainly for the 36 which had huge peak time loadings. In fact so busy that there were usually 3 buses loading at Tyseley Rover works alone plus all the other Lucas sites along the route! Anyway the picture is at the old Stechford terminus. Nice addition to the heritage fleet.

[Tony]

Last two days I have spent tidying up, then cleaning the top deck of 3997. Starting to look like how a 1970s bus should now

[Squiz1971]

Last two days I have spent tidying up, then cleaning the top deck of 3997. Starting to look like how a 1970s bus should now

Looking a lot cleaner I would imagine than when you picked her up. A lot of hard work sweat, tears & elbow grease used to get 3997 to looking better @Tony.

[Stevo]

Good to see the top deck of a Wolves jumbo again! You can see one of the two differences between these and the BCT ones - the opening windows had a little round knob rather than the long lip that BCT had. Some of the windows have been replaced, of course. The only other difference I saw was white steering wheels instead of BCT's black.

[Westy]

Are there plans to hire out the vehicles to tv & film companies, as an additional source of revenue?

[Wolves256]

With the addition of 119L to the NXWM heritage fleet. Does any one have a list of preserved pre WMPTE municipal & Midland Red, WMPTE, West Midlands Travel and NXWM preserved vehicles?

[Stevo]

Glad to see 119L rescued. This was with Fuzz Townsend and appeared in the background of a lot of earlier Car SOS episodes. As Wythall's 116 is in Walsall livery could 119L be in WMPTE livery please?