E161YGB
A sunny day at Glasgow Buchannan Bus Station and the vehicle featured is a Leyland-DAB Lion. It was one of a batch of six, all originally ordered by Kelvin Scottish who could not take delivery because of a cashflow crisis, partly caused by the Glasgow bus war but also because some of its vehicles and even some of its garages were falling apart.
After Leyland used D852RDS as a demonstrator all six were purchased by Clydeside Scottish, five receiving new Glasgow registrations, as Clydeside’s Registered Office was at Thornliebank; initially they wore Citylink livery but later donned the Quicksilver livery used for Clydeside’s own limited stop services. E161YGB’s fleetnumber is JB851 denoting allocation to Johnstone Depot.
Parked on layover is an almost exclusively SBG selection, a Metrobus/Alexander RL and a Leopard (or Tiger) Alexander AT of Midland Bluebird, and a Fife Scottish coach seated Volvo Citybus. The cream and green interloper looks to be a Van Hool Alizée of Dodds Coaches.
This is a Ron Doig Picture © Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust
E161YGB
A sunny day at Glasgow Buchannan Bus Station and the vehicle featured is a Leyland-DAB Lion. It was one of a batch of six, all originally ordered by Kelvin Scottish who could not take delivery because of a cashflow crisis, partly caused by the Glasgow bus war but also because some of its vehicles and even some of its garages were falling apart.
After Leyland used D852RDS as a demonstrator all six were purchased by Clydeside Scottish, five receiving new Glasgow registrations, as Clydeside’s Registered Office was at Thornliebank; initially they wore Citylink livery but later donned the Quicksilver livery used for Clydeside’s own limited stop services. E161YGB’s fleetnumber is JB851 denoting allocation to Johnstone Depot.
Parked on layover is an almost exclusively SBG selection, a Metrobus/Alexander RL and a Leopard (or Tiger) Alexander AT of Midland Bluebird, and a Fife Scottish coach seated Volvo Citybus. The cream and green interloper looks to be a Van Hool Alizée of Dodds Coaches.
This is a Ron Doig Picture © Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust