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This week we visited the Mike Sutcliffe Collection at Totternhoe and Mike has agreed to bring all of his currently available preserved buses along. Three are away at the moment, the White Rose coach is on loan to the Leyland Museum, the Chocolate Express is with Brooklands London Bus Museum and the Wellingborough with Oxford Bus Museum. Five definitely booked in are the ones we saw at Totternhoe on Thursday and include this Leyland S3.30.T new to Barnsley and District in 1913 as their 5 (HE12). It was one of a batch trialled by British Electric Traction (BET) for tram replacement and the buses were loaned to BET companies across the country, The coach built body features outside seating in the vestibue behid the driver, the enclosed saloon seating reached by a sliding door. The blind is set to Reading as the bus' next engagement is on the Maidenhead - Reading run to celebrate the Thames Valley centenary on August 2nd. HE12 was actually used by Thames Valley. Five buses will be displayed on the new Reading Station forecourt. With the entry is Showbus of the Sutcliffe Collection and the buses already enetered, there will be more pre-1930 buses at Showbus than took part in TfL's Regent Street Pagaent for the Year of the Bus last summer!
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