Our YouTube channel most often features the vehicles that keep the industry running, but the people who keep those vehicles running are just as vital. Nottingham City Transport recently marked the retirement of one long-serving member of staff, Mark Lawson, after 50 years of service as a mechanic and Vehicle Inspector.

Mark was one of the company's longest ever serving colleagues, starting as an apprentice fitter in September 1973 after completing his O Levels. He completed his apprenticeship and became a permanent fitter and worked at the operator's former Bulwell Garage. The Lawson family have working connections with NCT since the 1920s, as both Mark's mother and grandmother worked for NCT. Mark's grandmother was one of the first conductors in the company.

For almost twenty years, Mark has been a Vehicle Inspector NCT’s Parliament Street garage, a role he started in February 2004 and remained in until retirement in November 2023. During his career, Mark worked on several bus types and remembers working on the Silver Jubilee Bus of 1977 and meeting the Lord Mayor in 1999 when they visited NCT to offer thanks for the efforts he'd made over the years in his work.

"I've been proud working for NCT because I feel like I've achieved something through the job I've done. I'll certainly miss working at NCT, where I've made a lot of friends over the years. Sometimes it's not been so good getting up at 5:30 in the morning on a cold, frosty February, but on the whole, I've really enjoyed it. I wouldn't have been here 50 years otherwise," Mark said on reaching his retirement.

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