I'm not sure if we are all the same but I have favourite buses, maybe it's the one of a batch that even in old age looked particularly smart, or that Leopard or Leyland PD3 with the even more distinctive exhausr note. But often it was buses I used to encounter regularly as I drove around the countryside. At one time I used to do some agricultural chemical deliveries for RHM at Fradley and that took me to Lincoln and back and then on to Wrexham . A bus I often encountered was this long demoted ECW Bristol RELH London express coach now working from Oswestry garage which as the destination suggests could usually be seen on the country roads around the lakeside village of Ellesmere.
I remember Aberystwyth depot sending one of theirs out-and-back to Birmingham each Saturday in the run up to deregulation in the mid-1980s on what I think was a Saturday-only National Express working.
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Elegant they might have been but hardly modern and exciting, but still I'm sure passengers would have been forgiving as they were probably more comfortable and relaxing than the modern coach. Cosy but not always warm or cool either as the air vents weren't very powerful.
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