Today's blog is rather special as it's something which has taken some time to arrange due to the holiday season and the longer time it's taken for the refurbished buses to come back to Ipswich, this was a chance to good to miss and was a chance to bring the ITM and First Ipswich together to promote both organizations which me and First Business Manager Chris Speed have been hatching for some time was to get 32479 AU53 HJV in the heritage livery of the Deregulated Eastern Counties livery alongside one of the museums beautiful Eastern Counties buses in the form of LFS 125 GNG 125C which was put into position by ITM's Stuart McNae a former Ipswich depot fitter himself, who was rapt later on in conversation with current Ipswich Engineering manager Barry Spurling on how things were done in the past, also along for the morning was Lucy Wright PR Manager for First Norfolk/Suffolk and Essex and ably assisting with putting things into position was Bernard Simpson of the Museum and regular photograph contributor James Long. Thanks must go to all those who contributed to the event and for the weather which stayed dry and bright.
Current Engineering manager Barry Spurling with Chris Speed.
In another exclusive to the blog i can tell you that Volvo B7TL's 32487 and 32492 should both return to Ipswich hopefully within the next 8 days, the delay has been caused by a lack of leather material for the seats, while Enviro 200 44516 should return tomorrow.
Also caught while we were waiting was Volvo B7RLE 69429 AU58 FNN heading up past the ITM on it's way to Felixstowe.
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