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Engineering Services Division |
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Like many similar companies, Eldorado always had a vehicle capable of towing a broken down bus back to the depot. This would typically be an old bus, withdrawn for service, and converted for the purpose. There would also be a smaller vehicle, a van or a Land Rover, equipped with tools, for the occasions when a vehicle could be fixed at the roadside, without the need to be towed back to the depot. In the early years these were not officially classed as part of the fleet and were not in Eldorado livery, so no records of them exist in the historical fleet lists. Around the turn of the century, Eldorado was getting an increased number of requests for help from other companies, and a separate division – Engineering Services Division – was created, and a slow expansion started, using specialist recovery vehicles instead of cut-down buses. Expansion rocketed in 2014, when Eldorado was awarded a contract to provide cover for several section of motorway during long-lasting road works, and expansion has continued steadily since then. Archive photos of all the vehicles are shown in the following pages, with the exception of the original E1, a late 1940’s Series I Land Rover, for which no photo can be found. The vehicles are shown in the order in which they were acquired, which is not necessarily the same as age order. Note: Depending on the era in which they were taken, and the camera being used, some photos are at a lower resolution than we expect today, so will appear smaller than the others. Click on the link below to see the photos. Click on a photo to advance to the next one, or on “previous” on the left to go backwards. To exit, use the links in the left margin. |
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