For many years despite it's decent sized allocation of approaching fifty vehicles the Midland Red garage at Nuneaton operated no double-deckers apart from one AEC 'Regent' Mk.11 AD2 till in 1960 new premises were opened in Newtown Road to replace Coton Road. As well as being larger the new garage was more suitable for double-deckers and 3117 was soon replaced by the first of a few D5Bs. Eventually the fleet of deckers reached eight buses and it included fresh blood in the shape of five new high-capacity D9's of which 5298 and 5299 dating from 1963 were the first.
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