Ribble Alexander Bodied Atlantean CRN873D

Ribble was so disenchanted with it's early MCW bodied Atlanteans it bought few others till the NBC era, indeed even prefering the Lowlander. But both of these later batches were the less satisfactory low-height variety but the Alexander bodied buses didn't look at all bad as these looked better than other operators full height models. Initially the Northern Counties buses looked nice and modern too with their curved glass fronts but once the novelty wore off it was easy to see how it was just grafted on to the old design and was slightly 'wrong' and probably not very strong. CRN 873D 1873 was seen in Blackburn when the bus was in it's second year in 1968.