I remember when I started spotting all one saw of LT at Potters Bar Garage was the ubiquitous RT type, but by the end of the Eighties it had become choice-wise a kind of lucky dip with a good selection of secondhand types from various PTE's. This Mark Two Metrobus had come from West Yorkshire PTE but as to where it was taken that is another matter as I did a number of calls with my van in the Enfield, New Southgate, Cheshunt area. Of course this was one of the least exciting additions as London Buses had plenty of not too different Mark1 Metrobuses already.
It's entering Potters Bar garage - still identifiable from Google Streetview https://goo.gl/maps/Tz66ni1nmf82
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The Mark 2 Metrobus was one of a pair which had come from West Yorkshire PTE. Potters Bar also had a pair of Alexander-bodied Metrobuses from the same source, five Metrobuses each from Greater Manchester and Tyne & Wear PTEs, Alexander-bodied Ailsas from West Midlands PTE and Van Hool McArdle-bodied Ailsas from South Yorkshire PTE. The only PTEs not represented in Potters Bar's allocation were Merseyside and Strathclyde - although London Country operated ex-Strathclyde Atlanteans into the town on LT tendered services which had previously been worked by Potters Bar garage.
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