WWII boat-looking bus
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The RN had double-decker buses for training in anti-submarine tactics, they went around smaller bases to train crews.
A couple of books have some photographs of a RN 'Radar Bus' going ashore from a Landing Craft at Beaumaris, it was also a double-decker so would not have been able to get over Menai Bridge. It was presumably going to train crews at Holyhead.
I wonder how many other modified buses they used for training purposes?
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Probably for "Field Carrier Landing Practice". Here is a modern example Of course it's a "probably", I can't find a decent source for this in particular.
I imagine they would have stored chocks, arrestor wires in there but I can't find a source. Another image link ,Different Picture
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HMS Spurious was a 1930's Albion Bus that, as your quote says, was converted to resemble the island of an aircraft carrier. It was used by the Deck Landing Control Officers school based at RNAS East Haven.
Extract from The British Fleet Air Arm in World War II By Mark Barber. The book, at least in its google books form, does not directly mention HMS Spurious but does provide information on RNAS East Haven.
I believe that RNAS East Haven was also known as/commissioned as HMS Peewit.
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