Staff of the Co-operative Bank Burnley get on board the bus for a journey into the past

Saturday shoppers in the town centre were given an insight into travel 1926 style, when the vintage omnibus drove slowly but stylishly along St James's Street. The open top bus, hardly comfortable by modern standards, has a top speed of 20 mph and is capable of doing just 4 miles to the gallon. The bus was built in 1925 for the London General Omnibus Company. In 1970 it was rescued from a garden where it had degenerated to a near derelict condition, and renovated to its present good as new state. The bus was in Burnley to help publicise new customer services introduced by the Co-operative Bank.