The first time I went to Torquay early in 1967 Devon General had received along with five AEC Regents a batch of six new high-gloss Leyland Atlanteans all carrying attractive Willowbrook Bodywork. Like other BET concerns who had taken large quantities of these Leyland buses when they first arrived on the scene their lack of enthusiasm was to be seen in their reluctance to order too many more preferring the solid no-frills reliability of the older designs, and indeed only another eight MCW bodied examples were to arrive in Devon General colours in 1969 before the whole BET Group became a part of the new Bristol VR loving NBC as the former State owned Bristol/ECW driven BTC sector was enlarged and modernised.
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