EASTERN COUNTIES LODEKKAS

Bristol Lodekka's have always been a favourite of mine for as long as i can remember, as far back as the late 1970's, i was particularly interested to see one trundle up and down the cliffs on the 248 in Felixstowe Eastern Counties OT 2 VDV 753 for those who don't know, of course i just missed out on seeing them in Ipswich having been withdrawn in 1980, vague memories of seeing either FLF 440/41 on fireworks night as close as i get! One school holiday i was up in Lowestoft and i managed to see FLF 446 in service, which would of been 1986, well over thirty years ago, above we see FLF 469 KNG 469D in the holday town of Great Yarmouth heading back to Norwich you can tell by the ridicously small print Norwich blinds.

Photo by Syd Eade. Bristol Lodekka FLF 458 JPW 458D certainly did the rounds when it was painted into London and Manchester Assurance livery, moving around almost every month, seen here at Lowestoft Bus Station one of very few Eastern Counties Bus Stations that still look the same as it did then in the early part of the 1970's