The green and cream buses of Newport in South Wales always had a strange fascination as the livery was very similar to my Dinky Toys fleet of half-cabs buses which are still in the cupboard. Sadly by the Eighties all the not dissimilar unusual life-size Fifties Longwell Green bodied PD2's had gone but Leylands were still to be seen as the Corporation bought some Alexander bodied Atlanteans plus a Leopard. However apart from a couple more Leyland coaches in the shape of Tigers a liking for firstly Metro-Scania, Scania itself and MCW's own Metrobus kept Leyland firmly out of future orders. As you can see my old superb Voitlander camera was on it's last legs but thankfully like West Mon and Cardiff in Wales the former Municipal fleet of Newport just down the road is still with us today.
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