PMT - Return of the Y type.
After amassing a substantial number of AECs with Alexander's 'Y Type' bodywork, the last of which was withdrawn in the 1980s after the MAP project, the company went on to purchase two or three more in the late 1990s for use as Driver Trainers. These later ones were four speed manual gearbox fitted Leyland Leopard chassis which had started life with Central SMT (Scotland). Their acquisition enabled drivers to be trained to gain a 'full' PSV licence as the testing requirements had changed. Formerly, to gain this entitlement, such a licence was only issued to those being tested on a manual boxed Double Decker... of which there was something of a shortage by this time.
GSU 845T was captured at a POPS rally held at the Staffordshire Potteries factory at Meir, Stoke on Trent.
PMT - Return of the Y type.
After amassing a substantial number of AECs with Alexander's 'Y Type' bodywork, the last of which was withdrawn in the 1980s after the MAP project, the company went on to purchase two or three more in the late 1990s for use as Driver Trainers. These later ones were four speed manual gearbox fitted Leyland Leopard chassis which had started life with Central SMT (Scotland). Their acquisition enabled drivers to be trained to gain a 'full' PSV licence as the testing requirements had changed. Formerly, to gain this entitlement, such a licence was only issued to those being tested on a manual boxed Double Decker... of which there was something of a shortage by this time.
GSU 845T was captured at a POPS rally held at the Staffordshire Potteries factory at Meir, Stoke on Trent.