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BASIC ECONOMICS
Back in Harrogate I had to travel on the bus to school, in fact
two buses, changing at the main bus station in the centre of the
town.
Pocket money was always short as it came from my father
who I seldom saw.
He did ensure though that I always received the “Eagle”
comic by post every week, right from the very first issue, the
highlight of my life!

I soon learned that if
I was quick enough at
the bus station I could
catch a different bus
from town to
school.Normally all the
local buses were run by
the West Yorkshire
company but on just
one route between
Harrogate and Bradford
the Samuel Ledgards
company ran double
deckers, the route which passed my school.
I could save a half penny on each journey if I could catch the
Ledgards bus. It left the station about two minutes ahead of the
West Yorkshire destined for Leeds.
Ledgards were based in Bradford and all their buses were
very basic with wooden seats and no upholstery at all. This
brought me to think ‘there must be a reason for this'. Perhaps
folk in Bradford were not used to the comfort of upholstered
seats?
I had only been to Bradford once with my mother when she

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