Margaret Thatcher's private armoured bus is on sale for £25,000
Mead runs Tanks-A-Lot, a company specialised in rent and sales of dismissed armoured vehicles from the British Army, and he is finding it difficult to sell Maggie's machine.
Meads told Business Insider that he had managed to sell it at an auction last year, but then the customer, who wanted to bring it to Iran, had problems at taking it out of the country, and the sale fell apart.
"What amazes me is that her handbag made £25,000, and her suits sell for thousands too, so why aren't people bidding my bus? It is a mobile bunker."
Meads had to put the bus back on sale, this time using the specialised website Milweb, and is yet to find a buyer.
Meads, who normally buys older tanks from the Ministry of Defence and owns about 130 vehicles, said that he bought the bus from a research group within the department. He expects that other historical conservative institutions or foundations would be interested in the purchase.
So far, thought, it had attracted quite the opposite reaction: "I got an email from an anarchist group yesterday, who wanted to buy it for spit on it and let it rot. I thought it was a bit harsh."
Meads told Business Insider that is now planning to check what potential buyers want to do with the bus before proceeding with the sale, to make sure it doesn't end up in a conflict situation.
The bus is still perfectly functioning and according to Meads it comes at a bargain price for an armoured vehicle: "A 12 feet armoured coach normally costs £150,000, so I thought this one with 36 feet and only 21,000 km on it would have done great," he said.
