Saturday February 3rd 2018, 5.50am, and it's time to leave for Newport Docks, to collect GHB 148N from her previous owner. After fuelling up at the local Tesco, our trip would take us west along the A14, M6, M42, M5, and M50, thence on the A40 and A449 into Newport. The journey passed well, albeit the weather (which was dry on leaving home in Huntingdon) had turned to rain within 5 miles, and stayed that way until nearing Newport. On arrival at Newport Docks, pleasantries were exchanged with my nephew, his young son, my friend who would be driving the RE on Trade Plates, and the former owner of GHB 148N. There, it was found out that the REs Master Switch had been left on, and that the batteries were almost flat! She had to be jump-started from another bus, which was achieved quite easily. A couple of brief runs in the Docks followed, once with my nephew driving, and once last drive in Newport for her former owner. My nephew Matt at the wheel. Shortly afterwar
A warm welcome to my new Blog, which will describe the antics, trials and tribulations with my new enterprise, Replica Transport Graphics . As a preserved bus owner in the distant-past, I knew how difficult it was to obtain accurate lettering and logotypes that my bus cried out for. I took it onto myself to try to not only reproduce the lettering and logos that my bus needed, but to also provide that service to other preservationists who were in the same boat that I was. Working at the time in a Reprographics Studio within a large Screen Printers, I had ready access to a very accurate camera (useful for copying vintage obsolete original transfers), and a large amount of typesetting equipment, together with scalpels and Amberlith (again useful for creating filmwork). It was only a matter of time before reproduction National Bus Company identifiers, logos, and legal lettering began emanating from my corner of the darkroom!. It wasn't long before my humble services were made ava