{"id":74,"date":"2021-02-03T09:21:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdekbusclub.org.uk\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2026-04-25T19:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:42:28","slug":"preservation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mdekbusclub.org.uk\/?page_id=74","title":{"rendered":"Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On behalf of its owners, the Club manages and maintains former Maidstone &amp; District vehicle DH159 (HKE 867), a 1945 Bristol K6A rebodied in 1953 with Weymann H30\/26R bodywork and acquired by the Club in 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After major restoration work since 2009 it now takes part in several local rallies and running days each season, usually including the <a href=\"https:\/\/southeastbusfestival.wixsite.com\/sebf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/southeastbusfestival.wixsite.com\/sebf\">South East Bus Festival<\/a> at Detling, the Faversham Transport Weekend, the Walmer running day and the New Romney Bus Rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For details of planned events, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classicbuses.co.uk\/++Events-diary.html\">Events Diary on the Classic Buses website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"271\" height=\"242\" src=\"http:\/\/mdekbusclub.org.uk.c51.previewmysite.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/HKE867.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of its owners, the Club manages and maintains former Maidstone &amp; District vehicle DH159 (HKE 867), a 1945 Bristol K6A rebodied in 1953 with Weymann H30\/26R bodywork and acquired by the Club in 1967. After major restoration work since 2009 it now takes part in several local rallies and running days each season, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mdekbusclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mdekbusclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mdekbusclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mdekbusclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mdekbusclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/mdekbusclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"http:\/\/mdekbusclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/238"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mdekbusclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mdekbusclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}