Bonking Borris Battle Bus

popebenny16

Although it is not in the full online version of Private Eye (snippet is here http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=rotten_boroughs&)

it is reported in The Eye that Boris Johnsons Mayoral Election Battlebus was last seen operating in dublin, that it was emitting lots of foul, er, emissions, and that the engine could not be shut off for fear that it would not start again.

this is the said bonking bus:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishbuses/7077199013/

its obviously a late Alexander Olympian from Dublin Bus. It has had the middle door taken out

http://www.backboris2012.com/news-media/blog/tag/Battle%20bus (pic half way down)

anyone know what bus this was in the BAC fleet. I can hardly imagine it being the wreck that Private Eye claims it to be.

dfx-

According to a knowledgable poster on the Irish Transport Forum, it is RV356. Excellent bus when it was in Dublin anyway and the last 1997 vintage to be withdrawn if I remember correctly.

LXFlyer

Most of the ex-Dublin Bus Olympians have been snapped up by UK private operators because they are in such good condition. They're certainly anything but wrecks.

popebenny16

exactly what i was thinking, cant remember those series of buses being anything other than excellent. I also, for some reason, think they look an awfull lot better than their replacement low floor bus.

so, is this PE having a go at the supplier more then anything, and is any of it true?? I have severe doubts.

LXFlyer

I suspect it's tongue in cheek getting at Boris...

Conway635

I've read the full piece in PE, and it looks like their main gripe is the company Boris has chartered the bus from, a firm based in Wimbledon.

The article details some , ahem, nteresting points about the financial affairs of people connected with the firm.

C635