Leopard in Stone
During a very recent round scanning more of Clem Smith's negatives I came across several very crisp B&W images, some of which I'll share here.
This offering shows one of PMT's 1962 built Willowbrook B54F bodied Leyland Leopards, 928 UVT, passing through the Staffordshire town of Stone. PMT split their order this year and took identical numbers of these Leopards, and visually similar AEC Reliances. Both types had manual gearboxes and were the first examples of 36ft long service buses in the fleet.
The photo would have been taken in the later years of its career as its wearing NBC 'Poppy Red'. From memory, most were withdrawn by 1979/80.
Leopard in Stone
During a very recent round scanning more of Clem Smith's negatives I came across several very crisp B&W images, some of which I'll share here.
This offering shows one of PMT's 1962 built Willowbrook B54F bodied Leyland Leopards, 928 UVT, passing through the Staffordshire town of Stone. PMT split their order this year and took identical numbers of these Leopards, and visually similar AEC Reliances. Both types had manual gearboxes and were the first examples of 36ft long service buses in the fleet.
The photo would have been taken in the later years of its career as its wearing NBC 'Poppy Red'. From memory, most were withdrawn by 1979/80.