IPSWICH BUSES 1980'S DEMONSTRATORS:A SMALL TASTE

Today's look back for a Easter weekend, looks at the curious types of demonstrators that Ipswich tried out during the early 1980's again from Stuart Ray's collection we see JGF 321K an ex London DMS repainted by IBT for Maxwell gearbox and is seen coming down Princes Street in October 1983, the bus itself had a very short life span being scrapped a few years later.

Again from Stuart Ray, this shows a very bizarre combination of a Marshall body on a Dennis Dominator single decker from Darlington 14 GHN 814V, this lead to Ipswich buying Falcon's but not Dominator's in 1983.

This unusual beast being the right word to describe this Leyland Articulated bus 2008 FHE 291V came down on loan from South Yorkshire PTE in Sheffield to try out use on the 12/13 routes, while they certainly could shift the crowds it certainly didn't catch on in the halcyon days of the 1980's but just over 20 years later they became a subject like Marmite you either loved them or you loathed them.