Thursday 7 March 2013

It's simply chocker-block at Bretonside

Plymouth has always been a mecca for visiting coaches in the season for visiting the historic city and of course included was a boat trip around the naval dockyard at Devonport. At one time in the Nineties the tarmac still used to heave as we see here with familiar coaching names like Battersby Silver Grey of Morecambe, Copeland from Stoke and on a typical day trip too Bere Regis of Dorchester. Interestingly all of these coaches were imported with just 7017 UN having a British  bodybuilder as not only had Leyland lightweights went out of fashion and the few still left in service didn't normally venture far beyond their local school runs.

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