Celebrating 100 Years of King Alfred Buses with FoKAB

Friends of King Alfred Buses (FoKAB) celebrates 100 years of King Alfred Bus serving Winchester, since 1922. This video brings you the brief history of the King Alfred Buses and the public transport of Winchester, UK.
Recording date: 07 and 09 October 2022
Quick Index:
00:00 Start
00:22 Chesil House
01:32 Welcome
04:05 Adventure 1
06:08 Past
19:41 Adventure 2
21:45 Present
31:57 Adventure 3
34:01 Future
36:15 Richard Chisnell, The Joint President
43:38 Credits

[@trevsmith1189]

Superb video. Well done to Mr James Freeman & all the FoKAB members past, present & future. Keep up the wonderful work that you all do. Here’s to the next 100 years. 🍾🇦🇺🇦🇺 Best wishes to you all from Australia.

[@petermurnaghan4490]

A thoroughly professional film. Most enjoyable.

[@dfishpool7052]

An excellent presentation - very best wishes for the future and I hope that you find a permanent home for those wonderful buses in the not too distant future.

[@peterthatcher5094]

Wonderful memories evoked from this of my time as a student of King Alfred's College Winchester ( teacher training college) I was fortunate in my second year to be trained to take my PSV test on a Leyland PD2 never having driven anything larger than a tractor and certainly no experience of working a crash gear box, I was amazed to pass my test after 6 hours of tuition which enabled me to drive the coaches and mini buses mostly for college work, such as teaching practice runs and sports teams. I also fitted in ( not sure how my college work was done) some school runs, including one adventure driving a tiger cub possibly one of the MAA 's greatly overloaded with children. I had to come down to first gear climbing Stanmore Hill, but that didn't work out, so the bus came to a stop halfway up the hill. The problem was that with such a large load and a dodgy clutch I could not get moving again as the clutch kept slipping, so all the children who were standing had to get off and walk up the hill ( which they did with no complaints - they must have been used to such things) which enabled the clutch to bite and the venerable bus to reach its destination.

[@hellowallace]

Some kids had to get off the bus and walked up the hill...and a teacher has to drive the bus...It's really hard for us who didn't go through that period of time, to image that!