Former Warburton Bros. (Bury) KTC330C, September 1994

            To me, this is far more than just an old bus in a lane. You see, there is a family connection with this bus. In the mid-1960s my elder brother was an apprentice mechanic at Warburton's, and KTC was 'top of the fleet'. It had had special additions when new such as chrome gear stick and even chrome rocker covers, and it starred at the 1965 Brighton coach rally. My brother told me that it was the longest coach in teh fleet, and two bricks had to be chiselled out of the back wall of the garage to make a space for the windscreen wiper spindles, as otherwise it wouldn't fit! My brother was rarely even allowed to get on KTC, let alone work on her, but to this day he remembers it fondly in an immaculate livery of black and cream. It was given a fleetname by Harrington of a block style with a sword running through it - the only example in the fleet.

By 1994 it was a very different story and KTC was at the end of its working life owned by a Mr Hall of Biddulph Moor. My brother and I went to see her and pleaded with Mr Hall to sell it to us, but he was "just about to start restoration" (right).

Mr Hall later passed on and KTC was sold for preservation. To the best of my knowledge it is at the Reliance Bus Works in Stoke on Trent, with some work done but not, allegedly, at any recent date. Now, if whoever owns her was ever to want a buyer........

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Staffordshire (show map)

Taken on: September 1, 1994

Tags:

AEC

Reliance

Grenadier

Warburton

Tottington

Bury

Bus

Buses

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KTC330C

Hall

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Sets appears in: • Warburton KTC330C • Buses in Greater Manchester

Groups appears in: • Bus UK Harrington Cavalier and Grenadier Coaches

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