An 808 and a 909
I'd not noticed the quirky coincidence in the two registrations before this evening, but here UKG 808J keeps company with PCY 909M quite by chance. Both buses were new to South Wales Transport, in who's ownership they were at the time of this picture taken I think, outside Neath railway station in about 1979. UKG is a Marshall bodied Bristol RELL6L and PCY is a Bedford YRT with Willowbrook's greenhouse like 'Expressway' body. The Bedford, and it's sister on the extreme right wear NBC's 'Local Coach' DP livery which I though quite suited them. It's amusing to speculate about the anguish this body must have caused those enforcing the corporate identity rules, as the fleetname simply couldn't go on the cove panels ... there weren't really any ;-)
An 808 and a 909
I'd not noticed the quirky coincidence in the two registrations before this evening, but here UKG 808J keeps company with PCY 909M quite by chance. Both buses were new to South Wales Transport, in who's ownership they were at the time of this picture taken I think, outside Neath railway station in about 1979. UKG is a Marshall bodied Bristol RELL6L and PCY is a Bedford YRT with Willowbrook's greenhouse like 'Expressway' body. The Bedford, and it's sister on the extreme right wear NBC's 'Local Coach' DP livery which I though quite suited them. It's amusing to speculate about the anguish this body must have caused those enforcing the corporate identity rules, as the fleetname simply couldn't go on the cove panels ... there weren't really any ;-)