This was Chester
Northgate Street, Chester on a rainy 22nd April 1981: I've always enjoyed visiting the City, although I personally think that it lost some of its character with the pedestrianisation of many of its central streets. The municipal owned bus fleet was always an interesting one, its red and cream buses an important and integral part of the City scene. By 1981, Chester, along with Lancashire United in Greater Manchester were then, the last bastions of the Guy Arab motorbus and were the places you could see the type operating in numbers.
Even in the early ‘80s it was still quite an amazing sight to see one of these stalwarts making it’s way through the City streets in the company of Fleetlines and Dennis Dominators, which were by then, the main stay of the contemporary fleet.
Chester City Transport No42, was one of the last Guy Arab motorbuses built for the British home market, arriving new to Chester in March 1969. After a reasonably long service life, and in the face of phasing out two-man operated buses, she was withdrawn from service in 1982. Fortunately, after withdrawal, 42 was sold to a preservationist in Altringham, and thankfully she survives to this day. glens-buses.fotopic.net/p50128985.html
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This was Chester
Northgate Street, Chester on a rainy 22nd April 1981: I've always enjoyed visiting the City, although I personally think that it lost some of its character with the pedestrianisation of many of its central streets. The municipal owned bus fleet was always an interesting one, its red and cream buses an important and integral part of the City scene. By 1981, Chester, along with Lancashire United in Greater Manchester were then, the last bastions of the Guy Arab motorbus and were the places you could see the type operating in numbers.
Even in the early ‘80s it was still quite an amazing sight to see one of these stalwarts making it’s way through the City streets in the company of Fleetlines and Dennis Dominators, which were by then, the main stay of the contemporary fleet.
Chester City Transport No42, was one of the last Guy Arab motorbuses built for the British home market, arriving new to Chester in March 1969. After a reasonably long service life, and in the face of phasing out two-man operated buses, she was withdrawn from service in 1982. Fortunately, after withdrawal, 42 was sold to a preservationist in Altringham, and thankfully she survives to this day. glens-buses.fotopic.net/p50128985.html
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