By: Graham Mudie

Graham Mudie — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 15:16:05 +0000

I remember going in there every lunchtime in the late 1970s. I and two colleagues would play Bridge over the 1 hour break. We would each bid against a blind 4th hand. We got pretty good. I remember there was always the threat of site closure, even then, because the traversers could only take 21m coaches and the trend was to build them 23m long. We found ourselves competing with Derby Litchurch Lane and Metro Camell in Birmingham. I remember us borrowing an International Coach prototype from Derby, to trial a traverser that floated on an air cushion, like a hovercraft. The idea was that the traverser could be skewed across the traverser pit to accommodate its longer length and perhaps float over it. Needless to say it wasn’t very successful.

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By: Graham Mudie