Keeping history alive is not easy. No matter how active you are, how much time and energy you put in. The government does want to preserve the 'mobile heritage', but at the same time makes ownership particularly difficult due to all kinds of new legal regulations.
By: Dirk de Jong
Jaap Boersma: “I speak from experience, because in addition to this beautiful Bedford, we manage the 'sailing heritage' on Ameland with a museum harbor in which old lifeboats such as the Neeltje Jacoba and Zeemanshoop have found a place. And we see the same picture there too. ” (As for the Neeltje Jacoba and the Zeemanshoop. Many books are filled with their history, both ships have a 'rich' past.)
The Bedford Basket Bus
The beautiful bus is made in England and evokes a positive emotion in many. Because who is not charmed by this bus with baskets on top, which was mainly used for wedding rides and company outings. On Ameland the bus was also called 'The bus of the smile'. People who see the bus always get a smile on their face. Every trip to the town hall with this particularly beautiful classic was the ultimate start to every wedding.
Years of standstill
Despite years of storage, the bus is technically 100 percent. But optically something has to be done about it. Jaap has now decided to award the bus (after 12 years of ownership) to another enthusiast. The new regulations require fewer seats, an extra emergency door and a raised roof. Adjustments that are far too costly for commercial deployment on the Wadden diamond Ameland.
Temptation
Jaap knows the charm of driving an old classic bus. His feeling says not to give it up, but his mind says this is necessary to get the bus back on the road. So that classic enthusiasts have the chance to find the bus again on the road or at classic events.
I don't understand something purely legal from work experience.
1st. Why must the headroom, legally with a new 1.80m bus, be adjusted for a vehicle that already has a registration number?
2nd. Why emergency door? Vehicle has three doors (1x right, 2x left it looks like) and if an emergency door should be added, it can and may be a slam window, as in the current public transport. Hang a hammer and tap above it and you're done.
3rd. Why less seats? Just because of the Corona period?
M curious.
Well gentlemen, this must be me, and of course I see it wrong, you can ingest poison on it.
With departures from YVR, we keep our distance during check-in. It is all almost cleaner than in a hospital, and walk in, every two meters!
The moment you are inside a 737 you slide down a very narrow aisle (path) first hang your straps over the railing, because by the time you are seated, there is no way for me to get them. The leather-covered seats are 44 cm wide, more than enough legroom, but then suddenly at 6 cm someone comes and sits next to me. And I don't understand that.
beautiful bus also think with a six cylinder petrol in it.
also came across these buses during some holiday in Malta.
A little further back in memory, a truck version of this drove around in Valkenswaard at Drankengrocery Claes
You're right, George.
Adjusting this bus is nothing more than violating the bus. And indeed.
With 300 men at great heights whizzing around in corona-proof certified aluminum tubes, that's allowed. I can no longer follow that either. The pictures of the bus also make me smile. Remains pr8ig !!
What ignorant thinks such a thing that that bus must be adapted. As if this bus is still used on the regular service. With 300 men crammed into an aluminum tube and fluttering around at a height of 10 kilometers is allowed .. (I do it regularly and it is no fun). But that will be another official who is okay with that.
Vertrutting from the first hour. Personally, it makes me rebellious.
Luckily, thought I was the only one !!