A long time ago now but Deregulation was a bit like a big cat which jumped on the almost complete jigsaw puzzle scattering the pieces everywhere. Some people might want to try at some point to write it all down but the fact that this Merseybus MCW Metrobus in Liverpool carries an Aberdeen registration and London Buses livery could inspire a school essay on it's own and this is just one bus. In fact it was one of five which went to Tyne & Wear and if I remember rightly in London to Enfield or Potters Bar.
Look like a Leyland Titan at the back, also presumably ex-London, tucked in behind the National...
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Merseybus were deliberately running ex-LT buses in London red because red was the livery of at least one of their major competitors (CMT, operator of the National in the middle)?
Definitely an "interesting" period, but a definitive history would make that huge 'history of the NBC' volume look like a paperback book! I suspect that unfortunately much of the detailed knowledge of the period, especially of the 'whys and wherefores' (rather than the dry lists of what happened), has been lost by now.
Yes Ross you are right the Titan is another of the many they bought off London. I think I'm rather glad nobody has tried to turn it into a book for except for the photos it might be a boring read, still I'm sure if it were Ray Stenning he would fill it with little maps and graphs. On the other hand I imagine everyone who went through it must have at least one good story
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