Strathclyde Buses "After the Fire" 1992

Strathclyde Buses "After the Fire" 1992 - 1993.

24th June 2006

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Strathclyde Buses lost over fifty buses in the Spring of 1992, caused by a disasterous fire at their Larkfield Depot, situated on Butterbiggins Road in Glasgow's South Side. For the first few days, SBL pottered on with what they had, aided by a few elderly Atlanteans which were hastily brought back to life.

Temporary hired help was sought and this came initially in the form of Ailsas from Tayside, Atlanteans from Grampian and Busways plus a sole former Grampian Atlantean from Midland and a sextet of Western Atlanteans which Western had just purchased from Greater Manchester Buses. Some Ikarus DAF saloons also lent a hand as did a couple of Plaxton Verde bodied Scania N113's whilst other oddities which dropped by included a Grimsby Cleethorpes Dennis Dominator, a Greater Manchester Scania and a Scania "R" type demonstrator which later became Nottingham City Transport 369. A new "C900" fleetnumber series was adopted for these hired visitors.

The Busways Atlanteans were eventually bought in September 1992 and more were sourced whilst the pair of Verde bodied Scanias also joined the fleet. These purchases lost their "C" class fleetnumbers around this time and assumed LA and SS fleetnumbers, and may form a further Fotopic gallery if there is any interest or the whim takes me!

These slides are all taken on a variety of 100 and 200 ASA slide film and have been scanned with a Nikon Coolscan ED V film scanner.

Thanks for visiting - haste ye back.