FP: Preston used letters instead of route numbers

Not surprisingly like Ribble, Preston Corporation was more or less 100% Leyland fleet for many years. Also till OPO became the vogue like most Municipal's the Preston fleet was dominated by double-deckers and here it was all Leyland Titan's when this MCW bodied PD3 was delivered in 1961 as Atlanteans didn't materialise till 1975. By 1979 sadly these fine old well-maintained buses were enjoying their final days of service including No.14 on route to Farringdon Park. As well as this batch PRN 905-11, locally based Scout Motor Services had Atlantean and Leopard coaches PRN 143-150 which must have been delivered at the same time. Today it is much more easy to work out the age of vehicles but unfortunately as they no longer carry local numbers the way Preston's did with it's once familiar *CK and *RN marques and now one has no idea of where they hail from except for the region of Britain where they were first registered which is rather boring.