THE SHOWBUS WELSH BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Welsh Bus Miscellany
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 Henley's of Abertillery exhibited two buses at the Cardiff Centenary display in their distinctive two tone green livery. This Leyland Leopard was new as Burnley & Pendle 34 (MFV34T) and had 47 seats crammed into its shorter than normal East Lancs body as the chassis was the PSU4, not uncommon amogst Welsh municipal operators but perhaps more unusual in Lancashire. |
 The second exhibit was another heavyweight chassis, a Plaxton Derwent bodied AEC Reliance, OAX500M, bought new by the company in 1973. |
 Chepstow Classic buses has an interesting fleet of vehicles, including many older deckers. This former East Kent ECW bodied Bristol VRTSL3 in all over yellow is probably used mostly on school contracts. Chepstow provide buses for various special occasions, most noteable of which is the annual Glastonbury Festival. The VR, BJG671V, once numbered 7671 in Kent, is visiting the Bristol annual rally at Brislington in July 2016. It is sandwiched between Western National ECW bodied Bristol K6B 959 (KUO972) of 1950 and Southern National 1324 (LTA958), a 1951 Duple bodied Bristol LL6B.
Picture ref B4137 |
 Seen at SHOWBUS international 2006 still in the colours of Emerald Travel, this Willowbrook bodied AEC Reliance, TYC250G, was new to Hutchings & Cornelius in Somerset. It later passed to Brewers in South Wales, which was absorbed into South Wales with United Welsh. |
 Two anonymous white Mercedes seen together at work in South Wales in the eighties. Nearest the camera is Plaxton Beaver 2 bodied V983DNB which served with Speedwell in the Manchester area for a while and with Nostalgiabus in Surrey. Alongside is former Thames Transit 335 (F405KOD), a Reeve Burgess bodied 709D. |
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