This rather ugly former blue and cream West Midland's MCW bodied bus No.4721 looked rather out of place in Southampton as 3472 working for the privitised Wilts and Doreset bus company, but in reality the Gardner powered Bristol VR chassis was very similar to the many far more elegantly proportioned ECW bodied examples here like the bus in the background.
Nice reminder. Unless I am after all these years mistaken, some of these buses went first to Crosville on hire in Liverpool where they effectively closed one of the garages because they were without power steering. Details here.
ReplyDeleteI think the person trying to board with that pram is somewhat optimistic.
Yes you are correct some of these did find their way to Merseyside where their presence added to the many industraial and social troubles in the city at that time.
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