Derby CT 173, St James Street, Derby, 1983

Derby CT 173 (HRC173C) in St James Street, Derby City Centre on 19th July 1983. The bus was one of the many Roe bodied Daimler Fleetlines that were owned and operated by the City's Transport Department.

 

Dating from 1966, 173 was numerically the 2nd of the Fleetlines (172-239), which were purchased by the Transport Department between 1966 and 1969; some of them arriving as the last of the Corporation’s trolleybuses were being phased out. By the time this picture was taken, these earlier Fleetlines had less than 12-months service ahead of them, after which the majority would be sold for scrap.

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Taken on July 19, 1983