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Shiny and new

            Between 1970 and 2015, I must have attended hundreds of classic bus events. One such event I visited during the early 1980s was the annual rally held at Southchurch Park, Southend-on-Sea. As well as attracting vintage buses and cars, the event provided local bus operators to showcase their latest vehicles. With the passage of time, these too are now classics and probably long departed to the scrapyard too.

In the 1983 Southend Rally, Eastern National showed off its new Leyland Tiger HHJ375Y, carrying a Alexander TE body and showing the unlikely destination of Paris. It also sports the recently-introduced National Bus Company ‘Venetian Blind’ dual-purpose livery, which added welcome variety to the hitherto drab NBC scene.

Eastern National was later swallowed up into the First Group monolith, after which HHJ375Y was transferred to the First Bristol subsidiary. Did it ever get to Paris in its lifetime?

June 1983
Yashica FR-1 camera
Agfa CT18 ASA 50 film.
   

Taken on: January 9, 2021

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