paulburr73
Coventry (Wheatley Street) Garage Fleet (total and numbers) in 1987/88
West Midlands Travel Coventry fleet numbers and totals - from a fleetlist given to me by the company itself in about 1988. 191 vehicles were based with the depot at this time with an average age of 6.8 years.
Wheatley St had received a batch of Park Royal bodied Fleetlines from Liverpool Street/Birmingham Central garage (in the form of 6582-91 and 6635-37) in 1986 - but it seems within 12-18 months they were drifting back west again. 6583 & 6586 had already gone. I'm pretty-sure 6636 was the last to go. 76 Fleetlines were still in service though!!
Those crude annotations - I am trying to work out what they meant and they're my additions?! - something to do with being repainted possibly. w = withdrawn, so I guess 6587 was the next Fleetline to leave and 2029 was written-off in July 1988. Looks like 2619 was received in exchange for Barclays Bank advert bus 2629. In fact 2619 returned to Dudley but came back here again upon DY's closure in 1993!
Not shown here, probably because it occurred in about 1990, was 2611 was exchanged for 2610 with Yardley Wood garage. Curiously 2610 arrived carrying a Cannon Park Renault dealer all-over advert - but I still don't know why the swap took place?
Coventry (Wheatley Street) Garage Fleet (total and numbers) in 1987/88
West Midlands Travel Coventry fleet numbers and totals - from a fleetlist given to me by the company itself in about 1988. 191 vehicles were based with the depot at this time with an average age of 6.8 years.
Wheatley St had received a batch of Park Royal bodied Fleetlines from Liverpool Street/Birmingham Central garage (in the form of 6582-91 and 6635-37) in 1986 - but it seems within 12-18 months they were drifting back west again. 6583 & 6586 had already gone. I'm pretty-sure 6636 was the last to go. 76 Fleetlines were still in service though!!
Those crude annotations - I am trying to work out what they meant and they're my additions?! - something to do with being repainted possibly. w = withdrawn, so I guess 6587 was the next Fleetline to leave and 2029 was written-off in July 1988. Looks like 2619 was received in exchange for Barclays Bank advert bus 2629. In fact 2619 returned to Dudley but came back here again upon DY's closure in 1993!
Not shown here, probably because it occurred in about 1990, was 2611 was exchanged for 2610 with Yardley Wood garage. Curiously 2610 arrived carrying a Cannon Park Renault dealer all-over advert - but I still don't know why the swap took place?