Odd things to see here

Just a few things I’ve seen on my travels that i caught my eye th


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In Saint John, New Brunswick a local tour company has a load of old ex London double decker busses that are still obviously right hand drive and still have the old UK licence plates on them, along with their current NB ones. I’ve also seen a few European registered vehicles on the road. In backwater Woodstock, NB I’ve seen a car each on Dutch and French plates and I’ve also seen a German camper and another from Austria.

Must cost a few quid to ship it. Would think it would make more sense to fly and hire a Winnebago much better equipped to.

Hi kr.You really should have bought the hat,it makes you look like a real ‘‘good ol boy’’,they would have loved you down south :wink: Mike

I don’t fancy been loved down south. I’ve seen deliverance lol

I once saw a UK Reg 51 plate ex military style camper van in the rest area just past Marathon in Northern Ontario. :wink: :wink: :wink:

kr79:
Just a few things I’ve seen on my travels that i caught my eye

This is an interesting story about Brit buses taken over there.

londonbusmuseum.com/museum-e … t-rt-2775/

The German camper is a bit like that story which I posted elsewhere of a Belgian car and caravan which was taken on board the QE2 at Cherbourg for NY when I went over there in the 1980’s.The caravan wouldn’t fit through the car deck hatch in the side and had to be craned from the ramp into the hold and then back onto the ramp when it was unloaded.The continentals are all mad. :open_mouth: :laughing: :laughing:

I posted the pics but my photo account was deleted but I might put them back here again sometime.

Funny enough I went down to Brighton last year when the historic commercial run was on and they had the bus there.

oh dear, jesus is my co-pilot :slight_smile:
like that capri, i’d be happy with that on my drive.
those old london buses get around, theres one round the corner from the gig in moscow. think i have a pic somewhere.

found it :slight_smile:

There is a German tour company that ships it’s own double deckers over and runs tours for a season then ships them back to send newer models the following year. I think they start on the west coast, travel most of the country and finish up in Montreal for shipping back.
Jim (Scouse Express) knows who they are and I saw one of them travelling up I-93 one morning full of tourists, German plates etc.

hello KR79,

A former workmate of mine was sent over from England to Harrisonville Missouri,in order to get the bus (RM1843) on the low loader fit to travel. Below is a link to it leaving Missouri and one for it arriving at Southampton. This was the third or fourth time the company had brought a bus back to the UK and the second trip for him.

youtube.com/watch?v=gI4QJN608Wo

youtube.com/watch?v=8HzL5hcq … fA&index=1

Cheers it’s nice to get background info on odd things you see.

Just watched a bunch of videos there of the London Transport Routemasters.
Brilliant, took me back to the days I delivered in the smoke before living there.