2700 in as acquired condition 25/5/1978  © C. Fenner

Two years later and no change © C.Fenner

November 1985 showing the work done by the Bolton Bus Group ©C. Fenner

Notes

This bus started out its life as a petrol engined coach with an English Electric Co. body as fleet number 1420. In 1949 it was fitted with a diesel 7.4 litre engine and rebodied by Burlingham's of Blackpool becoming fleet number 2700. In 1951 Ribble renumbered their fleet and this became fleetnumber 209 and  surprisingly lasted in the fleet until 1961. It ended its life allocated to Skerton (Lancaster) Depot alongside our Leyland TD5 decker 2057 .

In July 1961 it was sold to Millburn Motors a Preston based dealer, then being sold to Lindale Garage(dlr), Grange and onto William Goodacre & Sons (Carpet Manufacturers) of Kendal in Dec 1963, theykept it until July 1966 when it passed to Southern Counties Car Auctions(dlr) of Blackpool, sometime after this it became a garden shed in the Cleveleys area and was acquired for preservation in February 1975.  Nothing then happened with it until the 1980's when the Bolton Bus Group offered to restore it using money and labour from the Government Job Creation Scheme, and work got underway, it was however subsequently discovered that the funding allocated was to restore trams not buses, so Geoff Bailey of the Bolton Group took it on for a while , and then it passed back to the Trust at Inskip.