Ambassador Travel LT902 (A902 KAH) at Barton Mills - 28 Apr 1985

Sunday 28 April 1985 – Ambassador Travel LT902 (A902 KAH) seen heading away from Fiveways roundabout at Barton Mills around 0800. Ambassador Travel was created in the split of the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company in September 1984 and this coach, a Plaxton Paramount 3500 bodied Leyland Tiger, had been delivered to ECOC in January 1984. At the time this section of road through to Chalk Hill was single carriageway and work had already started to make a dual carriageway. The coach, heading west, is on the roadway that became the eastbound carriageway. The large direction sign and the lay-by beyond it can be still be identified today although the AA Office didn’t last for much longer and was removed. The AA had had a presence at Fiveways for many years. The grass on which I stood to take the photograph would become the westbound carriageway.