Bluebird & Maynes in Manchester

The Manchester bus seem has lost much of it's interest now that Independents like Maynes have gone and on a visit today I saw no Blue Bus either. Although Mayne still operates coaches it's red and cream buses no long give the city a traditional flavour. They favoured Scania in later years whilst Blue Bus liked Dennis's like this East-Lancs bodied example W5 BLU.