THE LONDON & HOME COUNTIES SHOWBUS BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Tillingbourne Bus Company
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 Red Rover bought a pair of Plaxton Derwent bodied AEC Reliances in keeping with its coach deliveries at the time. They arrived either side of Christmas 1970 and were regular performers on the Saturday south coast express services. This photograph from the company archives of 5 (UKX150J) shows it on the Aylesbury town service on Elmhurst Estate. The town service needed one bus doing an hourly repeat of three services to Quarrendon Estate, Belgrave Road via Bicester Road (route 12) followed by an Elmhurst (14) and a Quarrendon Estate, St Peter's Avenue via Buckingham Road (route 13). In practice this work was intermingled with country services providing a variety of vehicles for town service passengers and a variety of work for the driving team. All the services competed with United Counties in the town, but Red Rover's were so reliable they took the lion's share of the passengers. As for 5, later 105, it passed to Tillingbourne when ousted, with others, by a trio Caetano bodied Bedfords.
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 The three new Caetano Estoril bodied Bedford YMT coaches, 129-130 (HUD647-649S), are seen together with 105 in the Aylesbury depot yard. |
 One of a trio of buses displayed at SHOWBUS international 2001 by Norfolk Green was this Leyland Tiger with a Plaxton Derwent body acquired from Tillingbourne and recently reregistered from its former TIL registration, F870TLJ still had a hint of Tillingbourne about it. |
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