M&D Bristol VR ... in Stoke.
On the face of it, quite an unremarkable photo, but delving a little deeper there's something of a mystery. HKE 680L was recorded in the middle of 'The Potteries', Longton, Stoke on Trent. Quite obviously the bus had been freshly re-painted as it had yet to receive it's NBC decals. Naturally, you would imagine that the only place where such a re-paint would have been carried out hereabouts would have been fellow NBC subsidiary PMTs Central Works in Stoke... but this was Longton a few miles away. It's bizarre in the extreme that it should be deemed economic to send buses two hundred miles merely for a re-paint, as I recall this bus wasn't the only one.
M&D Bristol VR ... in Stoke.
On the face of it, quite an unremarkable photo, but delving a little deeper there's something of a mystery. HKE 680L was recorded in the middle of 'The Potteries', Longton, Stoke on Trent. Quite obviously the bus had been freshly re-painted as it had yet to receive it's NBC decals. Naturally, you would imagine that the only place where such a re-paint would have been carried out hereabouts would have been fellow NBC subsidiary PMTs Central Works in Stoke... but this was Longton a few miles away. It's bizarre in the extreme that it should be deemed economic to send buses two hundred miles merely for a re-paint, as I recall this bus wasn't the only one.