Northern Bus Sheffield

Few of us grumbled about the 'Stagecoach Stripes' that adorned the former NBC Leyland Leopards, Bristol VR's and RELL buses of Northern Bus, besides the colour combination was quite attractive and quirky. Indeed we rejoiced at Independent operators like this who cherished old buses in their dotage like this firm complete with it four-digit and BTC style fleet-number plates. ECW bodied Bristol RELL GEF 191N dates back to that age not so long ago before 2001 when we could usually know everything we needed to from a registration letter as in this case where EF was Hartlepool where the Corporation liked these Leyland powered buses which eventually made up more than half of the fleet.