BMMO D7 4768: One of my very first photographs

I'm sure I am not the only one who got their first camera as a Christmas Present, an Ilford Sporti which took primitive 120 size roll film and then even though it was not up to it I went out in the poor winter lighting conditions and enthusiastically wasted the twelve exposures in the snowy bleakness. At the Midland Red garage in Stafford stands 4768 one of two D7's from the final batch delivered there in 1957, the other one being 4739. This photo was unusual as being the way in buses usually faced the other way. Considering the weather conditions it looked very clean so perhaps it had been put out to dry and the garage doors shut behind it to keep in the warmth. There was no bus wash here in those days so it had to be done with a hose.