Once the buses in East Lancs looked like a rich Chocolate Cake.

From the mid-Sixties Municipal operators modernised their livery as modern types arrived. Sadly the older buses usually looked better as they were but thankfully Rossendale PD3/East-Lancs No.37 missed out and looked magnificent as it motored past the garage and bus station in Rawtenstall in 1981-2. Many town fleets up here in North and East Lancashire carried these rich brown or maroon and cream colours including as well as here, Burnley Colne Nelson, Preston, Lancaster, Ramsbottom, Bolton, Wigan and of course the wonderful BET controlled Ribble.