Extract from Northampton Diocesan Magazine, Spring 1961. Text and image of the bus.
An appeal for funds for Fr McCormick to complete the conversion of his bus as a chapel for the Travelling Mission. The bus is paid for and has a new set of wheels. Once completed there will be a fixed altar, stations of the cross, and seating, with kneeling space, for 34 people.
Diocese of Northampton
2 Archive Record results for Diocese of Northampton
pg1: index
pg2-3: letter to Ransomers, signed Laurance Goulson, Master of the Guild
pg4: The Wilderness - image of rubble and scrub
pg5: Mass in the Cafe - image of priest elevating the host with a number of worshippers, crockery in the foreground (annotation: "Robert L McCormick")
pg6: The Travelling Chapel - image of Fr McCormick's converted bus (annotation: "Robert's mobile chapel")
pg7: Inside the Bus: Image of Fr McComick saying Mass (annotation: "Robert saying Mass in mobile chapel")
pg8: The Temporary Church: image of front of church with priest, ladies and children. (annotation: "St Matthew's / Barton Le Clay (Beds) 1961 / This was my record - from my first visit when there was no church to getting this was six months and then they got a permanent church"
pg9: A Church at Last - image of a church. (annotation "This is the new church at Newmarket opened in 1966")
pg10: What the priests say (6 comments from diocesan priests).