I have to admit that the principal attraction of working for Northampton Transport was driving the fleet of aged Leopards which had arrived the previous year. Fast forward to September 1997, and I'm doing an early afternoon turn which worked the twenty minute route 121 'Semilong Circular amongst other things. Pottering round the town and county in these classic Y-type Leopards wasn't really work to me.
A handful of elderly passengers board former Alexander Midland Leopard GMS 297S in St. Andrew's Road without complaint. The lady about to board my bus was formerly the seamstress for the Corporation Transport Department. She carried her free pass in a holder she'd made from seat leather offcuts. She would always insist on boarding last, no matter whether she had been waiting longer than other passengers, 'because I don't have to pay'.
This was my favourite NT uniform - the grey trousers, white shirt, navy tie and navy summer dust jacket. The shirts could be worn with the smart NT 'All Saints Church' epaulettes, though I hadn't got mine at this time.
D.Henderson collection/ Patrick Rawlinson
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