Fuel stop for 854, at Pryor Mede depot, as 850 lurks in the background

850 FNN on the service ramp at Harthill depot. These ex Barton NCME / AEC Regents were some of my favourite buses of alltime. Redferns ran a total of four. In addition to 850 & 854, they also had 853 FNN but it was written off in a head-on smash with an East Midland Leyland National and got replace by 962 PRR, an identical bus from the later batch from Barton, built in 1963

854 FNN, Redfern's No.54, seen at a village at the end of the afternoon schoolrun from Kiveton Park. The attractive livery is Middle Masons Green, Lagoon Blue and White, from the Derby paintmaker Masons, sadly now closed down. They supplied paint to many bus operators

854 & 850 FNN await the afternoon's school run, which I had the pleasure of joining, thanks to the ever helpful Mrs. Parker at the depot, who always kindly arranged for me to ride out on the school run!

854 FNN in rural Notts. at the end of the afternoon schoolrun

Typical interior of an Alexander D -type with red leatheretter trim

FJA 205D looks striking with its go faster stripes in Middle Masons Green, Lagoon Blue and White at Sherwood Baths, Mansfield

850 FNN on the ramp at Harthill

We move on a year or two. This is Redfern's depot in Chesterfield around 1985 and a former Reading Bristol VRTLL2/6G 33-footer is seen, fitted with dual-door Northern Counties bodywork. These massive buses were knicknamed "Jumbos" at reading and the slogan for service using them "Hop on a Jumbo" was adopted.

Lindley St. depot in Mansfield, with ex SYPTE Fleetline GWA 816N & JVM 993N ex Greater Manchester, Tues. 19 July 1988

Lindley St. depot, Mansfield sees ex Reading VR NRD 53M keeping company with former SYPTE & GMPTE 'deckers, Tues. 19 July 1988.

854 FNN gathering dust inside the Chesterfield garage, in need of a new AEC AV590 engine

854 & 850 FNN were both new to Barton Transport in 1960. They are seen on the forecourt of the depot of Redfern subsidiary Kirkby Andrews, at Pryor Mede, off Woodhall Lane, Harthill. The stylish lowbridge 70 seat bodies are by Northern Counties of Wigan, mounted on AEC Regent Mk. V '2D3RA' chassis

FJA 205D is a 1966 lowheight Alexander-bodied Daimler Fleetline, new to North Western of Stockport. By 1982, it was seen here with Redferns at Sherwood Swimming Baths in Mansfield, sporting a dummy grille taken from a Bristol Lodekka. It certainly made it look different!