Steve MacKenzie BSS 438T - 2 Mar 1990

Friday 2 March 1990 – Steve MacKenzie of West Row BSS 438T seen in Barton Mills working a morning school contract. It was a Plaxton Supreme bodied Volvo B58 that had been new to Simpson’s Coaches of Rosehearty on the northern coast of Aberdeenshire in January 1979. According to a note I read on the internet, it was acquired to work between Scotland and Plymouth carrying mackerel fishermen. It was later sold to Trathen’s of Plymouth. It remained in the livery of Skill’s Coaches of Nottingham whose coaches carried the name “Skill’s scenicruisers” – the Skill’s name and the final ‘s’ had been removed to just leave the ‘scenicruiser’ name on the sides. Otherwise Steve applied his own lettering in an orange which blended well with the earlier graphics.