Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Enhanced family stories

Family stories get embellished or distorted over the years.

My grandfather "drove the first bus in Edinburgh" or that is what I remembered.

Today I found his licence




As he was driver no 258 he certainly wasn't the first, but he does appear to have been one of the first drivers on the Mound to Corstorphine route.

James Rolinson at the wheel

Both of these photos appear in the 1976 staff magazine of the Scottish Motor Group and I suspect my father or my uncle supplied the information. So it is a secondary source and should be viewed with some suspicion.

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