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The New Chudbus, 1964 - 2004 - ???? Launched at the National Venue Show at the Birmingham NEC

The New Chudbus

These pictures show the bus the day I bought it, while we were refurbishing it, and now it's complete

The new bus... ...on the day we bought it

A paint job and MOT later, and it's back home at Highgate House
(after, of course, driving from Purfleet to Northamptonshire at a top speed of 38mph)

Typically it decides to rain the day we take its new paint out of the workshop!

Back at Highgate House

And as you can see, we still had a LOT to do inside.

Work in progress... ...downstairs

The route it used to operate

But we got there in the end (these below taken at the National Venue Show)

New Upstairs 1 New Upstairs 2

(and these two in the Courtyard at Highgate House)

Board Meeting on the Bus

Our September Board Meeting was held on the bus (above)

From left to right, my sister Jo (Sales & Marketing Director), sister Lucy (Human Resources Director), brother Robin (Non-Executive Director, and MD of FFP Packaging Solution), me and David Wilcock (our Financial Controller).

The bus was officially launched at 12:30pm on Tuesday 12th September 2004 at the National Venue Show, Birmingham NEC. However, we 'unofficially' unveiled it at the Highgate House staff fun-day two days before (the same day we finished the work, lifting the fridge on at 8am!). On the Saturday I was interviewed by Kevin Saddington of BBC Radio Northampton, and on Sunday Anglia News came to film the fun-day. We have since featured in Conference News, Corporate Entertainer, Square Meal, Northamptonshire Business Times and the Northampton Chronicle & Echo, with new enquiries arriving by the day.