Back in 1997, my friends and I were
asked by a bus-driver friend of ours for help in a preservation project of his,
as he had located an ex-Fife Daimler Fleetline that was for sale in working
order, and we were of course happy to help him buy it and support him as he drove
SXA63K all the way back to Fife. Below you will find a link to a short page
detailing my recollections of that trip, but leaving that aside right now, it
turned out after some years that our friend had taken too many projects on (so
he said - and I know THAT feeling!) and decided to offer it to us rather than
risk selling it to someone who might break it up for spares. History immediately repeated itself
after we moved FRF63 to Methil, as we got as far as assessing the work that was
now required to put into good running order (our friend had 'helpfully' taken off
the lower body panels, the front below the windscreen, and the engine cover, and done some other dismantling inside before deciding it
was a project too far!), but before we got very far with the work this project
got overtaken by others, most notably the long restoration job on 26040 we had
already started followed
by the work on FRD187, FPE88... However we always intended to resume work on it, and by
the spring of
2009, it was high time! And also high time details of it were added to the
J-Files as well...
Long Trip Home!
In telling the story of how FRF63 got into preservation in 1997 I have
been somewhat hampered as I have no pictures with which to illustrate
it. However don't let that stop you reading about the time when we went
Fetching A Fife Fleetline!
Heading East!
We Can Rebuild It! (Can't We ? ! ?)
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In
2003 my friend Alistair bought FRF63 and (of course) we immediately moved it to
Methil so that (we thought) it would be possible for us to get to working on it
right away. And here are the pictures from the day SXA63K was
Heading East!
Despite
some early work after FRF63 arrived at Methil, and some occasional work on the
engine to try and keep in running order, it took until 2009 for us to get down
to serious work on SXA63K. And, unsurprisingly, I have had to create a whole
sub-section to cover this work which I have decided to call
FRF63 Reborn!
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