Face-to-face with a Yellow Peril
A most comfortable way to travel to school, here is East Yorkshire Motor Services” 575 (MKH84), a Leyland PD2/12 delivered in 1952 with Roe bodywork. Contoured to squeeze through the Gothic Beverley Bat, it was one of a batch to coach specification and in primrose and blue livery for the longer distance services from Hull to Leeds and Scarborough. The buses soon gained the’Yellow Peril’ nickname. The original batch was numbered 568-581. After just two years, one half of the batch (575-581) were reconfigured as ordinary buses and repainted in the regular EYMS midnight blue livery, thus earning the ‘Bluebottle’ sobriquet.
The buses were taken out of service between late 1967 and 1969. Local preservationists acquired 575 in February 1968, the first EYMS bus thus secured, and it was an active participant in various events throughout the 1970s. My photograph was taken in Hull at the start of the annual run to Bridlington. Thereafter 575 dropped out of the public view and was known to have undergone changes of ownership. I had long presumed 575 to have been scrapped but it is apparently still extant, but requires funds for a fundamental restoration.
June 1971
Instamatic camera
Gratispool slide film.
Face-to-face with a Yellow Peril
A most comfortable way to travel to school, here is East Yorkshire Motor Services” 575 (MKH84), a Leyland PD2/12 delivered in 1952 with Roe bodywork. Contoured to squeeze through the Gothic Beverley Bat, it was one of a batch to coach specification and in primrose and blue livery for the longer distance services from Hull to Leeds and Scarborough. The buses soon gained the’Yellow Peril’ nickname. The original batch was numbered 568-581. After just two years, one half of the batch (575-581) were reconfigured as ordinary buses and repainted in the regular EYMS midnight blue livery, thus earning the ‘Bluebottle’ sobriquet.
The buses were taken out of service between late 1967 and 1969. Local preservationists acquired 575 in February 1968, the first EYMS bus thus secured, and it was an active participant in various events throughout the 1970s. My photograph was taken in Hull at the start of the annual run to Bridlington. Thereafter 575 dropped out of the public view and was known to have undergone changes of ownership. I had long presumed 575 to have been scrapped but it is apparently still extant, but requires funds for a fundamental restoration.
June 1971
Instamatic camera
Gratispool slide film.