North Western Renown at Drayton Manor.
Tying in with yesterday's offering, here's an ex NWRCC AEC Renown from the following year's delivery. This batch carried 'B' suffix registrations denoting 1964. Upon the break up of the company under NBC control, the 1963 'VDB . . . ' registered Renowns all passed to Crosville, whilst the 'AJA . . .B' batch went to SELNEC PTE. This photograph however was taken of one of the latter, AJA 122B when it had passed to Cannock area independent Churchbridge Luxury Coaches. The bus had a large fibreglass patch on its offside dome, but I swear I once saw it at Lawton Bodyworks with its nearside dome stoved in. How unlucky can a low height double decker be!?
The photo was taken at Drayton Manor Park back around 1976 / 77 and is another colourisation effort of mine. I seem to recal that the original b&w is somewhere else in the bowels of my photostream if anyone prefers such.
North Western Renown at Drayton Manor.
Tying in with yesterday's offering, here's an ex NWRCC AEC Renown from the following year's delivery. This batch carried 'B' suffix registrations denoting 1964. Upon the break up of the company under NBC control, the 1963 'VDB . . . ' registered Renowns all passed to Crosville, whilst the 'AJA . . .B' batch went to SELNEC PTE. This photograph however was taken of one of the latter, AJA 122B when it had passed to Cannock area independent Churchbridge Luxury Coaches. The bus had a large fibreglass patch on its offside dome, but I swear I once saw it at Lawton Bodyworks with its nearside dome stoved in. How unlucky can a low height double decker be!?
The photo was taken at Drayton Manor Park back around 1976 / 77 and is another colourisation effort of mine. I seem to recal that the original b&w is somewhere else in the bowels of my photostream if anyone prefers such.