An Emotional Sale to Lawson’s
We have recently sold this very special double decker to Lawson’s Coaches in Corby, Northants. It’s special for a number of reasons. Personally, I don’t think you’ll find a better decker. It’s a Volvo D10M Citybus on a mark IV chassis. Not many of those were built. It’ll sit comfortably on the motorway at 100 kmh. It has 87 high back seats with 3 point belts. It is also special to me as I bought this and it’s sister out of Nottingham City Transport in 2007 and converted them to the current seat layout. When Focus ceased trading they were bought by Redline Travel in Preston to join the other 3 in the batch that remain bus seated and they have served the scholars of Preston and South Ribble for the last 12 years. Eventually vehicles need renewing so it had to go to make way for younger vehicles, although they won’t be a patch on this old girl. Pictured collecting the bus from Redline on a rather damp day are Jane Lawson, and Martin. Hopefully they’ll get as much good service out of her as Redline have and with a bit of luck they’ll be back for another in the summer.
