"Lost in the 50's" Double Decker Bus Rescue

283 BWU, longtime Vancouver landmark, was hours away from becoming third world spitoons when it was rescued by the owners of International Movie Services - Doreen and Ian Newby. This is the bus arriving in Aldergrove, B.C. from the Surrey scrapyard to which it had been towed. June 06 2008

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• 283BWU
• double
• decker
• bus
• lost
• in
• the
• 50s
• scrap
• west
• yorkshire
• dx1759
• burnaby
• edmonds
• diner
• british

[DJ0VINNEY]

at 2.00 there text in vid wot dis it stay

[InternationalMovie]

@DJ0VINNEY It says: (Pt. I): "283 BWU is the registration number of the Bristol Lodekka FS6B which many Vancouver, B.C. area denizens know as the landmark "Lost in the 50s" bus which used to sit outside the diner of the same name on Edmonds in Burnaby. This vehicle was sold to a Coquitlam area car dealer and then sent to scrap one dark night (unbeknownst to the owner!)...cont'd

[InternationalMovie]

@InternationalMovie (cont'd...)

"...to a Surrey junkyard, only to be discovered by chance by Ian and Doreen Newby mere hours from its scheduled date with the shredder. In point of fact, had the night shift been working at the scrapyard in question as per usual, 283 BWU would truly have been "Lost". (June 2008)

[ed: when I made the video, the editing program wouldn't let me expand the time that the tail graphic was on-screen, hence the 'blink')

[mickeymoose76]

Wait a minute, how was the bus being brought from a surrey uk scrap yard, to Canada, when it had been a longstanding Vancouver landmark? doesnt make sense??

[InternationalMovie]

@mickeymoose76 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Seems the world has several Surreys so there must've been a booming export market back in the ol' Empire days. :)

[my90tp]

Now thats Class Towed By a Perterbilt (the 379 if I'm not mistaken)

[SAMIEWALLFORD756]

Why did you see that a second black reading information... Grey blank??? Unknown what is it? See that 2:00?

[harryfaber]

Good to know she has been saved. These Lodekkas are part of my childhood!

[enr3870]

@mickeymoose76 a scrap yard in Surrey BC Canada.

[DJ0VINNEY]

@InternationalMovie

Thank you

[DJ0VINNEY]

at 2:00 i noted some text wot dis it say

[thisiszaphodbeeblebr]

Keep it going! You do have a valuable vehicle, there.