Gravesend

In the Sixties Maidstone and District operated it's fleet of 783 buses and coaches from no less than nineteen garages and I guess quite a number like Gravesend had an allocation of well under the average. Indeed it was situated on the Thames Estuary right in the far north-west corner of the companies area and as a reminder of this London Transport had one of it's  'Country Area' green bus garages just down the road at Northfleet with over forty-one buses probably almost twice the number at M&D. Unlike the typical Leyland Atlanteans and Harrington products to be found at this BET stronghold, at Northfleet along with RT, RML and RF buses were a number of those small ECW bodied Guy Special buses used on rural services.