Ipswich having to made do with second-hand buses

At one time there was a generous enough budget to ensure the various Corporations could regularly buy fleets of new buses, but by the Eighties cash constraints meant every penny had to be counted and even some of the most up-to-date municipals like Ipswich had to swallow their pride and make do with some second-hand stock alongside the new buses. I felt the attractive Roe bodied Leeds Atlanteans it bought from the West.Yorkshire PTE fitted in rather well here as did the Bristol RELL single-deckers it purchased from Leicester.