DPV 65D, Ipswich AEC Regent V No. 65, Adair Road, 21st. August 1983
Bus 65 (recently outshopped in this livery) is working a special tour to commemorate the closure of the Ipswich trolleybus system twenty years earlier (the last day was actually 23rd. August 1963 but the tour was staged on the nearest available weekend date). It's frightening to think that 2013 will mark the 50th. anniversary of the system's closure!
The bus is standing on the turning circle at the junction of Adair Road and Bramford Road (adjacent to the now demolished "Waveney" pub). Because of the railway bridge over Bramford Road, only single deck trolleybuses could be used on this route, one reason why it became the first service to go over to motorbus operation in 1953.
DPV 65D, Ipswich AEC Regent V No. 65, Adair Road, 21st. August 1983
Bus 65 (recently outshopped in this livery) is working a special tour to commemorate the closure of the Ipswich trolleybus system twenty years earlier (the last day was actually 23rd. August 1963 but the tour was staged on the nearest available weekend date). It's frightening to think that 2013 will mark the 50th. anniversary of the system's closure!
The bus is standing on the turning circle at the junction of Adair Road and Bramford Road (adjacent to the now demolished "Waveney" pub). Because of the railway bridge over Bramford Road, only single deck trolleybuses could be used on this route, one reason why it became the first service to go over to motorbus operation in 1953.