It was by pure chance that Jim Freeland entered the bus industry. An engineer by trade he was faced in the early 1970s with a stark choice in the face of industrial decline, which had seen many traditional engineering companies closing.
After considering his options, Freeland applied for a job with Eastern Scottish as a bus conductor based at its Dalkeith bus depot. He says he saw the move as purely a temporary one until the fortunes of the region’s engineering firms revived, but 38...
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