Wallasey Corporation 1951 Leyland PD2
The Wirral is quite small as places go but during my formative years in the 60s there were three operators of public buses with fiercely defended territories. Birkenhead buses were blue and Wallasey buses were yellow and each stuck to their own boroughs. Crosville were green, but they only passed through the area with strict restrictions on where passengers could get on and off.
The only territorial concession was two routes operated by Wallasey Corporation between the resort of New Brighton and the depths of Birkenhead bus country where I lived. Consequently, I have a firm association between yellow buses and days out at the seaside.
This is a preserved Wallasey Corporation 1951 Leyland PD2 that would have been working during the 1960s. It is shown working route 1, which was the first Wallasey route to be taken over by Leyland Atlanteans in the early 60s.
Wallasey Corporation 1951 Leyland PD2
The Wirral is quite small as places go but during my formative years in the 60s there were three operators of public buses with fiercely defended territories. Birkenhead buses were blue and Wallasey buses were yellow and each stuck to their own boroughs. Crosville were green, but they only passed through the area with strict restrictions on where passengers could get on and off.
The only territorial concession was two routes operated by Wallasey Corporation between the resort of New Brighton and the depths of Birkenhead bus country where I lived. Consequently, I have a firm association between yellow buses and days out at the seaside.
This is a preserved Wallasey Corporation 1951 Leyland PD2 that would have been working during the 1960s. It is shown working route 1, which was the first Wallasey route to be taken over by Leyland Atlanteans in the early 60s.