With the unavailability of our expected transport Leyland Titan 225 to take us to Wirksworth, Shayne Howarth promised us a surprise. This turned out to be Ladyline Scania J272 UWO. The way it shot up Slack Hill was amazing! After a wet day we enjoyed a dry and highly enjoyable evening. Our thanks go to Peter Sellers and his team for going out of their way to make us welcome and getting us fully involved.

Tony Wilson writes: Images 21 & 22 below are similar vehicles to our 'chariot' to Steeple Grange. There appears to have been a batch of fourteen such buses (Scania / Plaxton Verde B51F) supplied in February 1992 to Cardiff City Transport. Some or maybe all were later acquired by the Roadcar company, repainted and placed into service in Lincs and Notts. I think the nearest that they would have ventured towards Chesterfield would have been Retford, where of course as we know, there was once a subsidiary of Chesterfield Transport.
IMAGE 21: Roadcar 277 negotiates a junction near the small village of Bole back in October 2003.
IMAGE 22: Roadcar's 273 enters Newark bus station on a day of 'April showers' in May 2003.