Omnibo-sartorial notes
A 10.3-metre, single-door Leyland National of Cynon Valley District Council, seen on Friday 29th December 1978. The bus had been new earlier in the year and is seen in Aberdare. Cynon Valley was, of course, the descendant of the town's UDC operation; I believe it was eventually absorbed by Red & White. Livery was a sort of sang de boeuf, with a propensity to fade. Note donkey jacket, right, a proletarian fashion of the sixties and seventies, usually with plastic yoke, lacking in this particular example. Last year I found an identical garment in the bottom of a trunk. It was one of a CEGB-issue pair, donated my by first father-in-law. I can't remember what happened to the other. Following the reinstatement of two missing buttons, it served me well throughout last winter.
Omnibo-sartorial notes
A 10.3-metre, single-door Leyland National of Cynon Valley District Council, seen on Friday 29th December 1978. The bus had been new earlier in the year and is seen in Aberdare. Cynon Valley was, of course, the descendant of the town's UDC operation; I believe it was eventually absorbed by Red & White. Livery was a sort of sang de boeuf, with a propensity to fade. Note donkey jacket, right, a proletarian fashion of the sixties and seventies, usually with plastic yoke, lacking in this particular example. Last year I found an identical garment in the bottom of a trunk. It was one of a CEGB-issue pair, donated my by first father-in-law. I can't remember what happened to the other. Following the reinstatement of two missing buttons, it served me well throughout last winter.