Seems ironic, but just as our Langley shop regained heat, work began on our 1982 GM ‘New Look’ to remove heat. For quite some time the coach had a leak in the piping connecting the passenger heaters to the radiator. Too, the heater cores needed attention, so the decision was made to bypass the heating system. Since the bus will no longer be in service, this will not affect the operation: visitors in the winter will be dressed for the weather, and in the summer we will not need heat! The driver’s heater remains operational. This past Sunday (March 3rd 2024), the 4107 Mobile Museum project leader Jason Sharpe began work on the bypass. To open the ‘barn doors’ enclosing the heating cores, 4107 had to be raised. Jason was aided by Milan Streit; Milan’s first task was to drive the coach onto the ramps. There’s no room for error here!
Photographs: Matthew Walker, Ewan Streit, and Michael Taylor-Noonan
New Board Elected
At the 2024 Annual General Meeting, held March 1st 2024, a new Board of Directors was elected by members of the Transit Museum Society. ‘New” refers to the date of its term, for the 2024-2025 Board is comprised entirely of members of the previous Board.
The 2024/25 Board of Directors (left to right): Jason Sharpe, Lawrence Walker, Michael Taylor-Noonan (Vice President), Sue Walker, Bryan Larrabee (President), Milan Streit, Rob Chew and Angus McIntyre.
Full disclosure: I didn’t manage to photograph the new Board before Jason left the Anvil Centre. Milan was absent. So, I reused this photograph of the 2023-2024 Board. Trust me, despite being a year older and wiser, our appearances haven’t changed!