Guy Special GS1 (MXX 301) on display at Addlestone as part of the Cobham Bus Rally in 1991

Cobham Bus Museum Rally April 1991 - The original Guy Special 😎 Although I never managed to see any of these small buses in passenger service, I did catch a few in their last days with London Transport, either leaving Chiswick Works on the evening staff bus duties, or stored in the back of country garages. Here we see the very first Guy Special GS 1 (MXX 301), newly restored into the traditional London Transport country livery - forming part of a large display of preserved buses in the supermarket car park opposite the now-closed Addlestone bus garage.

Cobham Bus Museum - in 1972, the London Bus Preservation Group (LBPG) acquired a former World War II aircraft factory, now demolished, near Cobham, Surrey, where the private Cobham Bus Museum was established, taking its name from the location. Although the museum had in the interim become a Registered Charity and a Registered Museum, by the early 2000s its future was uncertain as the building was deteriorating and planning permission could not be obtained to operate a public museum from the location, thereby jeopardising both the charitable and museum statuses. Eventually, the operating Trust was able to negotiate the acquisition of a large plot of land from the nearby Brooklands Museum Trust on the location of the former Brooklands racing circuit and aircraft production site. A deal was struck for the redevelopment of the old museum site and the construction of a new building at the new location, thus providing the museum with a secure home from where it could open daily to the public. The new, purpose-built premises opened on 1 August 2011 and the London Bus Museum name was adopted.
More on the old Cobham Bus Museum here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bus_Museum

Bus History
GS 1 (MXX 301) new to LT, Guy Special 44208, ECW B26F body 6347, LT body number 8166
10/53 CM (Chelsham) new, trainer, then into service on 453, 464, 465, 485
1954 CM in use on 465
7/55 CM
4/56 CM to Aldenham overhaul
4/56 CM from o/h
57-8 CM (Chelsham
7/59 CM to Aldenham overhaul
9/59 CM from overhaul, unlicensed
10/59 CM relicensed
11/60 CM into store
12/60 CM ..and out
1961 CM
7/62 CM
10/62 RG transfer into store
3/63 sold to Tillingbourne Valley, #1, used on 448
repainted in maroon with grey lining
64-8 Tillingbourne Valley
2/69 preservation status
8/71 withdrawn
8/71 bought for preservation by G.Trice, Chilworth
7/74 preserved by G.Trice, Chilworth
bought by Harveson, Rusper, West Sussex
9/83 bought by Model Road & Rail, Worcester Park (Surrey)
1991 restoration to 1959 condition
Courtesy of Ian's Bus Stop: www.countrybus.org/GS/GSa.html#fleet

Taken with a Nikon F-501 SLR and 75-200mm zoom lens [Scanned from the original Kodachrome slide with no digital restoration]

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Taken in: UK / England / Runnymede District / Addlestone (show map)

Taken on: April 7, 1991

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