IBT East Lancs Leyland Atlantean 36 RBJ 36W when new inside Constantine Road Depot on 3rd October 1981.
What peaked my interest in Buses i don't really know was it in 1981 when i was bought a Matchbox Royal Wedding Londoner bus or when my Primary School hired an Ipswich bus to go to the Wolsey Theatre, or was it watching Eastern Counties Bristol Lodekka Open Top OT2 VDV 753 heading along the cliffs in the Summer.
Initially my primary school hired Suffolk County Council buses which were in a hideous Brown and Orange livery well it was the early 1980's and usually it an ex Edinburgh/Lothian Bedford GSX 112N which seemed to gather an impressive amount of moss on the window sills in the winters. For longer hires the school after a time would hire in Ipswich Borough Transport Atlanteans my first ride would of been one of the 73-76 batch of ECW body's LDX 73-76G, then lucky me one of the very first East Lancs Atlanteans 36 RBJ 36W on a trip to Stowmarket. By the time i went to Copleston i had elevated myself to becoming a bus enthusiast.
My chosen bus for trips to the Swimming Pool was GSX 112N seen here with Lothian in 1976.
From the Stuart Ray collection we see one of the magnificent Ipswich ECW bodied Atlanteans 74 LDX 74G in 1970 i always thought how majestic and stylish these were.
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