Practical Motorhome

DOUBLE TROUBLE!

Perhaps you are old enough to remember the 1970s children’s TV programme, Here Come the Double Deckers? No? Just us then!

The premise of the show was a gang of kids using an old double-decker London bus in a scrapyard as a den.

Sounds like fun, right? Well, for David and Gillian Rivers, the idea of having their very own double-decker became a reality in 2009, although in their case (and this would work as a TV show format in its own right), they converted it into the world’s first double-decker mobile farm.

Fast forward a few years and the Farmyard Flyer was to go through another transformation, as the couple faced the economic reality of a mobile business that had come to a permanent halt as a result of the

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