As the country prepared for the end of pounds, shilling and pence, Ribble Buses found an innovative use for four double-deckers which had reached the end of the line.
The bus company converted them into mobile classrooms in 1970 which were being used to train the company’s 2,000 staff in how to use the new decimal currency.
Decimalisation was due to come in on February 15, 1971 and the bus operator had given itself five months to give all staff sufficient training to understand the new currency.
This photo, taken in August 1970, shows senior managers at Ribble being given a lesson in one of the newly converted mobile classrooms where the old bus seats had been made into desks.
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