Finchley and Totteridge Car Centre
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Finchley and Totteridge Car Centre
Image: © Martin Addison Taken: 28 May 2009
Located on Colney Hatch Lane next door to Tesco's, this is a used car dealer with MOT and service facilities. The owner of the company clearly has an interest in London Transport, with an imitation underground station sign and a real Routemaster on display. The Routemaster was used as an office, but is currently all locked up as a proper office has been constructed. For the record, the Routemaster is RML2333 and was originally a green (London Country) vehicle, delivered in 1965. She was bought by London Transport in 1977, and worked on the number 15 Route. She was refurbished in the early 1990's and received an Iveco engine. I don't think she was ever allocated to Finchley garage or worked the 13 Route - the blinds for which she is displaying. Information about this vehicle and other London Transport buses can be found on the Ian's Bus Stop website - http://www.countrybus.org/
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Image Location
Latitude
51.608173
Longitude
-0.153635