It has been said that engineers at Ribble were partly responsible for the concept of the BET same-at-both-ends single decker with curved screens front and rear. Ribble certainly took a huge fleet of these buses that they christened Red-Setters after a gun-dog. Numbers started at 458 in 1963 and by 1966 had reached 682, and then in 1967 came 201-220 and there were about fifty dual-purpose buses too. Even in NBC days Ribble buses were kept in fine order so it was hardly surprising that after sale many were snapped up by smaller independents. Middleton on Rugeley ran this pair and like a former Trent example No.577 was painted in the red with maroon company colours. Similar bus 557 was still very much as it had been when it left Ribble in poppy red with that single white band.
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