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COMMERCIAL MOTOR May 27, 1977 BARNSLEY has become a Pit Of a bus graveyard.

27th May 1977, Page 63
27th May 1977
Page 63
Page 63, 27th May 1977 — COMMERCIAL MOTOR May 27, 1977 BARNSLEY has become a Pit Of a bus graveyard.
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Keywords : Paul Sykes, Scrap, Nsl Buses, Bus

Many old buses — a huge proportion of vehicles disposed of by National Bus and the other major

Dperators — finally finish up ii scrapyards there, and inderstandably many people don't like. it. Scrapyards are I blot on the landscape.

South Yorkshire planning officers, in fact, are pressing for the NBC and other large operators to channel bus disposals to those few dealers who can dismantle and dispose of vehicles neatly and tidily.

A shining example to other dealers of the correct way to go about the business, the Paul Sykes Organisation, has ust opened a new export packing and shipping depot in Barnsley.

Here some E25,000 worth of bus engines and other mechanical components are shipped abroad, mainly to the Far East, every week.

The most noticeable feature Di the Paul Sykes Organisation is that despite handling 2,000 or so buses a year all its sites are carefully fenced and landscaped to blend in with the countryside and to present no nuisance to anybody.

• Dismantling buses has been good to Paul Sykes. In 1961 he rented part of a scrapyard For E1 a week, bought a double-decker bus for £170 and dismantled it selling the parts at a profit.

-At that time I was only earning E11 a week working all hours as a tyre fitter," Paul Sykes told me. "It didn't take me long to make £1,000 dismantling buses for scrap, and I've never looked back since.

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