Metro Scania - Leigh Bus station.
A Saturday afternoon whiz around northern Manchester saw us pop into Leigh bus station where we found this Metro Scania single decker, TXJ 517K. I regret that I don't know much about the origin of this particular bus... was XJ a registration mark local to this area? The Metro Scanias were for their time 'rocket propelled', though at the expense of high fuel consumption. The Company for whom I worked at the time had recently collected about eight AEC Swifts from the same garage these buses shared. I recall the garage foreman's plea 'can't you take those things (pointing at the Metro Scanias) and leave us the AECs...
Metro Scania - Leigh Bus station.
A Saturday afternoon whiz around northern Manchester saw us pop into Leigh bus station where we found this Metro Scania single decker, TXJ 517K. I regret that I don't know much about the origin of this particular bus... was XJ a registration mark local to this area? The Metro Scanias were for their time 'rocket propelled', though at the expense of high fuel consumption. The Company for whom I worked at the time had recently collected about eight AEC Swifts from the same garage these buses shared. I recall the garage foreman's plea 'can't you take those things (pointing at the Metro Scanias) and leave us the AECs...