What happened at this event?

A vintage bus running day with a network of routes creating the 1950s feel in the Surrey countryside.

We took RTW29 to this event.  Apologies to anyone who had hoped to have a ride on the RTW during the day as in the event it wasn't possible to put the bus into service. On the way up from Bristol in the morning, we got as far as Newbury and started losing coolant.  After a stop to cool down and refill, we continued to Reading and then Cobham, by which time we had once again lost a lot of coolant.

The Cobham engineers spent most of the day trying to trace the problem and fix it, but weren't able to track down the cause.  We decided to bring the bus back home in gentle stages, but even this proved difficult, and the return journey consisted of running 5-mile stages, followed by stopping to cool down, otherwise the bus boiled over.  Having left Cobham at 17.00 hrs we made it back to Bristol at 23.30 hrs.

Thanks very much to the Cobham team, to Thames Valley Police (who let us through a road closure when they realised the bus was too tall to take the diversion down country lanes), to RF366, which accompanied us for part of the journey to make sure we were OK, and to Phil Sposito who came up from Bristol to meet us and followed us back from Reading with a large supply of water.

During the day, a variety of vehicles including RLHs, GSs, RFs, RTs, RMs a TD and an anachronistic but splendid RP worked a network of routes around Cobham. 

Link to the Cobham website.

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