There must have been getting towards eighty to one-hundred of these attractive single-deck bodies built by Saro and Ribble took the largest quantity with forty delivered in 1953-4. Nearly all were delivered to BET Companies on the light Leyland Tiger Cub Chassis and buses went to other northern operators within the BET Group such at Northern General, Yorkshire Traction, East Midland and Trent too. This one of the former Ribble buses No.412 looked rather out of place a decade or so after it's sisters had been withdrawn and scrapped as it mingled with leaf green painted National B-Series buses of Crosville in Bangor. Still it should have felt at home as the former Saunders Roe factory where it was built was just over the Menai Straights on the Island of Anglesea. Having survived into the Eighties it is a shame this bus with local connections wasn't preserved too as it seems only one example, another bus from this Ribble batch has been saved as a representation of this popular type.
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This bus, former Ribble 412, has been preserved. It is owned by the Anglesey Vintage Equipment Society. http://angleseyvintagesociety.co.uk/
It's sister, Ribble 452, is with the Ribble Vehicle Preservation Trust.
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