Birch Brothers in Manchester

Now sanitised Central Manchester has lost much of it's former industrial splendour which in some ways is rather sad as there was something rather awesome and historically romantic about it's no-nonsense grim heritage. An interloper from the much greener South was this Birch Brothers Harrington Grenadier bodied AEC Reliance. k25 was the first of a batch of five delivered in 1964. Hardly surprisingly the coach carries 1960's anti-Nationalisation posters because as part of it's interesting history dating back to 1810 the Birch family ran buses between North and South London on the 536 between Highgate and Brockley Rise in competition with General until it was taken over with the formation of what was to become the London Transport of today in 1934.