Ask most bus enthusiasts of a certain age to list their favourite bus companies and the fleet of Devon General in the South West will probably be in there somewhere. Part of this might be fuelled by nostalgia for bucket-and-spade childhood seaside holidays but it's magnificent dark red and cream fleet of mostly AEC buses would also be a huge attraction. It was not until the end of the Sixties that Exeter City Council lifted it's ban on 30ft long double-deckers operating into the city which probably explained why it continued to purchase short AEC Regents like this Willowbrook bodied example of 1965 when bigger buses were the normal within the BET empire. I'm not sure which garage No.515 was heading for but no doubt locals would at least know where Service 77 went.
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