FRIDAY FLASHBACK

Two new images for you today travelling back to a time when all over adverts were the thing, during this period many of Ipswich's Atlantean's appeared in such schemes as Roe Bodied Atlantean 34 the penultimate Atlantean in the batch of 21-35 appeared in an advert for Britannia Stores i would presume this would be very early 1980's as Tower Ramparts School had been demolished.

The date on this one would be late 1980's as Eastern Counties Bristol VR 243 JAH 243V is fitted with a new blind set introduced from 1986 onwards, seen here on the forecourt of the Ipswich Garage in Star Lane.

One for Mr Speed i think showing the difference in style of the East Lancs body which i always found to be rather boxy compared to the more elegant style of Great Yarmouth's, Ipswich Swift's were never that popular for many reasons and had rather shorter careers than normal, during the hard winters later on in 1985/86 we saw a brief  period when Yarmouth's Swifts came on loan to Ipswich, here we see Ipswich's 91 DDX 91L, ironically Great Yarmouth bought and then stripped them for spares when withdrawn.