The sizeable garage at Russell Street, Dover, still in use today, is seen as it appeared in 1986, having regained red-painted lettering after a period when the letters were painted light blue in line with NBC policy of the 1970s.
Second-hand acquisitions by East Kent for Dover Harbour work in 1984 were ex-London Country Leyland-Nationals. 1067 ex-LNB67 is in Sealink livery at Dover garage in 1986.
Another former London Country National, 1127 (ex-LNB27), at Market Square in late 1985.
Ex-London Country LNB56, later East Kent 1156, turns into Priory Station in 1989, carrying the later blue, white and red livery (the red stripe subsequently being altered to yellow).
One of East Kent's first and largest batch of Nationals (there were 26 in all registered EFN 159-184L), 1162 as it became in 1987 is seen at Market Square, a terminal long-since abandoned due to pedestrianisation of the area.
1201 (RJG 201G), seen at Dover Priory Station in 1981, was an AEC Swift with Marshall body converted to B44D from B51F when transferred to docks shuttle work.
1343 (PJJ 343S) at Biggin Street in the autumn of 1985, when contracts to Tilmanstone Colliery were still running.
1429, a Ford A/Wadham Stringer minibus, was delivered in 1979 for use on services to William Harvey Hospital at Ashford, but by 1985 was displaced to private hire and spare duties. Seen at Waterloo Crescent, autumn 1985
An ex-Maidstone & District single-deck Fleetline, 1824, in Sealink livery at Priory Station in 1981.
1843 was another single-deck Fleetline, this time 1843 (ex Potteries 143) carried Seaspeed livery for the service from the Priory Station to the Hovercraft terminal at the western end of the Harbour
One of the first six VRTs purchased by East Kent in 1976, 7043 seen at Pencester Road in spring 1984
P&O Normandy Ferries were taken over by Townsend Thoresen in 1985, but P&O's parent company then took over Townsend Thoresen in March 1987. The Herald of Free Enterprise disaster saw to it that it was the Townsend Thoresen brand that disappeared, and P&O eventually became the main ferry operator using the harbour. In 1981 East Kent and M&D together acquired a batch of Fleetlines from Southdown, of which most went into service with East Kent. 7324 gained P&O livery and is seen in 1984 at Pencester Road yard.
7656 in National Holidays overall advert livery
7663 at Pencester Road on 564 to Aycliffe in 1986, shortly before minibuses were introduced on Dover town routes
8121 ex M&D 4121 Pencester Rd spring 1984
At the start of the 1980s two of the once-large fleet of Guy Arabs remained in East Kent ownership. GFN 928, by now withdrawn from service as a towing vehicle after several years as an open-top bus, is seen parked in a yard then used by EK at Bulwark Street near the Western Docks
AEC Regent Vs saw their last use on regular stage services in 1981, but remained in service for contracts until the mid-1980s. Standing on the site of the present Magistrate's Court Rooms, five MFN-F Regents await their afternoon duties.
