Shades of Glasgow
Glasgow Corporation Transport often vied with Birmingham City Transport in terms of who won the crown of the biggest municipal transport operator and as I know both cities, and their erstwhile bus fleets, both had their charms. Birmingham's usually immaculately turned out fleet boasted a sober livery of dark monastral blue and cream - Glasgow, as can be seen, had a superbly flamboyant livery based on various layouts of green, orange and white. To say they brightened the streets of the great commerical and industrial city is an understatement and I wish the 'powers that be' would adopt something as iconic instead of the presnt drab shambles. Anyhow - in the late 1950s Glasgow went on a buying spree, largely dictated by the abandonment of their renowned tram system, and purchased many hundreds of conventional front engined vehicles before turning to the 'new' Leyland Atlantean. Here can be seen two examples of Alexander bodied buses delivered from two of the three 'chosen' suppliers; D258 being a 1959 Daimler CVG6 and adjacent is Leyland (or as badged "Albion") Titan PD3/2 L405 of 1960. Both carry registration index numbers in the "SGD" block that GCT had reserved alongside the "FYS" sequence. Whereas Birmingham managed to get theirs in matching fleet and registration number Glasgow didn't.
Shades of Glasgow
Glasgow Corporation Transport often vied with Birmingham City Transport in terms of who won the crown of the biggest municipal transport operator and as I know both cities, and their erstwhile bus fleets, both had their charms. Birmingham's usually immaculately turned out fleet boasted a sober livery of dark monastral blue and cream - Glasgow, as can be seen, had a superbly flamboyant livery based on various layouts of green, orange and white. To say they brightened the streets of the great commerical and industrial city is an understatement and I wish the 'powers that be' would adopt something as iconic instead of the presnt drab shambles. Anyhow - in the late 1950s Glasgow went on a buying spree, largely dictated by the abandonment of their renowned tram system, and purchased many hundreds of conventional front engined vehicles before turning to the 'new' Leyland Atlantean. Here can be seen two examples of Alexander bodied buses delivered from two of the three 'chosen' suppliers; D258 being a 1959 Daimler CVG6 and adjacent is Leyland (or as badged "Albion") Titan PD3/2 L405 of 1960. Both carry registration index numbers in the "SGD" block that GCT had reserved alongside the "FYS" sequence. Whereas Birmingham managed to get theirs in matching fleet and registration number Glasgow didn't.