Pooles RC lookalike.
Visually similar to London Country's ill starred RC class was my personal favourite in the Pooles Coachways fleet, DRF 133E. Unlike the RC's in mechanical specification, it was powered by AEC's 590 cu in engine with six speed manual gearbox and rode on leaf leaf springs rather than air bags. Bought new in 1967, the bus survived to the end of operations with the Poole family and passed to the Mc Cready group who acquired the business. Withdrawal came shortly afterwards and after a degree of procrastination I narrowly missed buying it, finding it to have been scrapped the week before I tentatively inquired. The Willowbrook (Duple Midland) bodied Reliance was to be Poole's last new AEC. It's seen here on a winter Saturday afternoon outside their Alsagers Bank premises.
Pooles RC lookalike.
Visually similar to London Country's ill starred RC class was my personal favourite in the Pooles Coachways fleet, DRF 133E. Unlike the RC's in mechanical specification, it was powered by AEC's 590 cu in engine with six speed manual gearbox and rode on leaf leaf springs rather than air bags. Bought new in 1967, the bus survived to the end of operations with the Poole family and passed to the Mc Cready group who acquired the business. Withdrawal came shortly afterwards and after a degree of procrastination I narrowly missed buying it, finding it to have been scrapped the week before I tentatively inquired. The Willowbrook (Duple Midland) bodied Reliance was to be Poole's last new AEC. It's seen here on a winter Saturday afternoon outside their Alsagers Bank premises.