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On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:46:43 +0100, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

In article , Albert Ross
wrote:
I think it was Teeside PTE where the buses were painted turqoise.

So the story went, the Town Clerk was named Green.

When asked what colour the buses were to be painted, the PTE was told

"See Green"

hence the buses were painted sea green

I used to live there when I were a lad, and the Middlesbrough buses
were blue and the Stockton ones were green. I've always assumed that
when they combined the two areas into Teesside, they just mixed the
colours to get turquoise (or cyan, as they call it in television).

Quite possibly, but I like my story better!

Back in my day, Durham had Northern and United, both a sensible red
bus colour, and Trimdons who were a private company and blue. Oh and
there was another private firm whose name I can't remember, they ran
an express coach into Newcastle for a penny less than the main firm

When you got to Newcastle the Tyneside PTE had a sensible number of
buses for the population, painted egg-yolk yellow. In fact there were
often bus-jams.

On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 16:20:21 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Saturday, April 9th, 2011 at 12:52:55h +0100, Albert Ross wrote:

I think it was Teeside PTE where the buses were painted turqoise.

Teeside did not have a PTE though, since it was not a metropolitan
county.

On April 1st, 1968, the Teesside County Borough was created and
resulted in the amalgamation of the operations of Middlesbrough
Corporation Transport, Stockton Corporation Transport and the
Tees-side Railless Traction Board (T.R.T.B) into the new
Teesside Municipal Transport undertaking.

Ah that would probably be the one, I'm confusing myself with the
Tyneside which actually WAS a PTE.

On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:05:29 +0100, Zathras
wrote:

On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:55:45 +0000 (UTC), (Brian
Mc) wrote:

Zathras wrote:
: Up here we have the other side of the coin like 'Glasgow' Airport
: (which isn't even in *Greater* Glasgow, yet) but for sheer nonsense,
: it's difficult to beat Glasgow Prestwick Airport.

I think this is beatable! Many airports in the south-east of England have
been relabelled as "London (xxxx) Airport". The most recent (and stupidest!)
example is the (tiny!) "London (Oxford) Airport". It isn't even at all
easy to get to Oxford City Centre from the airport and why anyone wanting
to go to London would want to land there is beyond most people!

Maybe they hope to attract the likes or Ryanair looking for a cheap
'London' airport?

Probably to attract Americans who call the whole of England "London"

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:58:50 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

If they'd really wanted to give the airport (ex RAF Finningley) an
apposite local name with some real historical clout they could have
called it Wellington Bomber Airport. We don't get many Germans round
here so it wouldn't have upset anybody.

Gosh, they could even have called it Finningley as a tribute to the
fighters.

I guess the locals call might call it Finningley anyway?
Like we call Bristol "Lulsgate", or when I lived in: Manchester it was called
Ringway; Leeds it was called Yeadon; Nottingham it was called Castle
Donnington.

Duncan Booth wrote:
: I think this is beatable! Many airports in the south-east of England
: have been relabelled as "London (xxxx) Airport". The most recent (and
: stupidest!) example is the (tiny!) "London (Oxford) Airport". It isn't
: even at all easy to get to Oxford City Centre from the airport and why
: anyone wanting to go to London would want to land there is beyond most
: people!
:
: That is explained quite clearly on their website: they say it is cheaper
: to land at Oxford and take a helicopter in to central London than it is
: to pay the landing fees for your private jet at Heathrow or Gatwick.

Perhaps so - but it didn't stop the news media heaping derision on them
when the change was announced - when certainly don't recall this reason
coming up!

They may have belatedly found a reason to justify their change but Oxford
remains totally useless for the general flying public - not well served
by ANY forms of public transport, not easy to even get to the associated
city - etc.

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:58:50 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

I'm pretty sure there was a Robin Hood Roundabout on the A3 south of
London.

Was it on the Kingston By-Pass?

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Albert Ross wrote:

Lowestoft, houses jammed together and insufficient
parking. Parts of it look like Basingstoke.

How dreadful.

Bill

On 12/04/2011 15:34, Bill Wright wrote:
Albert Ross wrote:

Lowestoft, houses jammed together and insufficient
parking. Parts of it look like Basingstoke.

How dreadful.

It is, I'm very disturbed to discover I live in a town that resembles
Lowestoft.


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On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:09:12 +0100, Albert Ross wrote:

Oh and there was another private firm whose name I can't remember,
they ran an express coach into Newcastle for a penny less than the
main firm

Eden Buses of Shildon, perchance?

Mark Carver wrote:
On 12/04/2011 15:34, Bill Wright wrote:
Albert Ross wrote:

Lowestoft, houses jammed together and insufficient
parking. Parts of it look like Basingstoke.

How dreadful.

It is, I'm very disturbed to discover I live in a town that resembles
Lowestoft.


At least Basingstoke doesn't smell of rotten fish.

Bill