Restored Wolverhampton Corporation NJW 719 E, seen at Wythall Bus Museum. This Roadliner SRC6 has Metalastic suspension and a Strachans Paceline B54D body, the high capacity being achieved with 3+2 seating beyond the centre exit

Myself posed with 719, delighted to see the bus out at last

NJW 719E shows off its nearside rear, with the boot lid specially removed to reveal the Cummins V6-200 engine, overhauled expertly by Cummins own staff

Brand new Bournemouth-Willowbrook SRC6 posed at Loughborough before delivery in 1968

How neatly the Cummins V6-200 fits in the boot! No wonder it attracted such interest when new but sadly no-one knew just how troublesome that high-revving oversquare power unit would prove to be. Cummins really had gone into production too quickly, due to demand for a compact high power engine on the US market and Daimler were hapless victims, attracted by its neat and compact layout and anxious to cut a dash with their new chassis design

NJW 719 E displays its Cummins V6-200 to good effect - finished in the trademark khaki engine colour used by Cummins. The overhaul by Daventry staff of this engine is a credit to them

Bournemouth Roadliner shows off its rear engine grilles in a Loughborough park in 1968, before heading to Bournemouth for service

One of the KRU-F reg batch interior taken for Willowbrook coachbuilders 1968

Typical municipal interior in deep red leather - note the step-free gangway, so uselful in the Roadliner bus

Uptons formerly Staplefords of Markfield in Leics. - one of a number of Roadliners they ran until the 1980's

KDD276E COACH OF THE YEAR 1967 at Pivington Mill in 1987

Offerton Coaches, Stockport - Bill Broadhurst owner/driver's pride & joy, later sold to Knotty Bus & Coach at Stoke and then preserved my Mike Kingsley in Gloucs. 2004

KDD276E at The George, Egerton, after my ride out with owner Allen Carr

Close-up of the V8-540 Perkins which Bill Broadhurst installed from a Ford truck to replace the original V8-510

Rear shot of KDD ,showing the vents to the V6 Cummins engine compartment

View forwards showing origianl seats in UAD before retrimming.

KDD 278 E at GE Dack & Sons, Kings Lynn, fitted by now with a Perkins V8 - myself alongside

ex Black & White 315 on a day trip at Barry Island in South Wales. I'd gone for Woodhams scrapyard to see the steam locos and heard this V8 roaring in

Classic Black & White Motorways cirrus seat trim in KDD 278E

RDG 308 G at Lenham Church, just off the A20 Ashford Road, after my run from Pluckley, later to be famous for the TV series "Darling Buds of May"!

RDG 308G leaves Pluckley Station for Pivington Mill depot

RDG 309G with Dragon Coachways, Stocksbridge, Sheffield. The steelworks in the background

UAD316H with Offerton Coaches, Stockport, operated by owner/driver Bill Broadhurst