SELNEC or as it later became known Greater Manchester Transport after it was enlarged inherited a large fleet of Leyland Titan half-cabs from Stockport but these were soon diluted with other types and two former Manchester Corportation Atlanteans from the END-D batch can be seen in this view.
Hmm. Completely missing the wide Manchester "units+letter" blind off the end track, so it can't correctly display three-figure service numbers and the passengers get to play "guess the number". 13something, but 13what?
ReplyDeleteWe sometimes forget how rough around the edges even "quality" operators had become by the late-1970s, which is when I'm guessing this was taken.
There were exceptions of course with some wonderful Independents but everything about the bus industry became shoddy in the Seventies and perhaps the nickname of NBC being No-body Cares sums it up nicely. Out went all those proud wonderful Municipas with their fine titles and historic crests and instead we got toilet-cleaner-container pastel liveries and ugly DIY type names or just letters. I stopped taking photos for a few years but when I came back i'm glad I stuck to my old black and white film.
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