By popular demand
A couple of commenters requested this photo. It shows a vehicle that appeared some weeks ago at the edge of another photograph. I cautioned at the time that quality was not great but, after a lot of clone-tooling and toning down some flare at the top of the picture, it hasn't come up too badly.
The bus that had, by Thursday 12th October 1978, become Greater Manchester PTE no. 6097, began life, in April 1969, as Bury Corporation no. 97. According to "new look" Bus Lists on the Web, it was a Daimler SRG6LX with East Lancs dual-door, 41-seat bodywork. I could never understand the logic of constructing single-deck bodies on chassis with vertical rear transverse engines. This configuration, undesirable from an engineering point-of-view, was used on sufferance as a means of one-man operating double-deckers. Perhaps it was thought worth putting up with for the sake of a low floor and entrance step. Understandably they were never a common type. They were around here and there, but not endemic. Such vehicles were usually Fleetlines, but Portsmouth had single-deck Leyland Atlanteans. I can't remember any others. Perhaps there would have been a market for a Bristol VRT saloon. The photograph was taken in Stevenson Square, Manchester.
By popular demand
A couple of commenters requested this photo. It shows a vehicle that appeared some weeks ago at the edge of another photograph. I cautioned at the time that quality was not great but, after a lot of clone-tooling and toning down some flare at the top of the picture, it hasn't come up too badly.
The bus that had, by Thursday 12th October 1978, become Greater Manchester PTE no. 6097, began life, in April 1969, as Bury Corporation no. 97. According to "new look" Bus Lists on the Web, it was a Daimler SRG6LX with East Lancs dual-door, 41-seat bodywork. I could never understand the logic of constructing single-deck bodies on chassis with vertical rear transverse engines. This configuration, undesirable from an engineering point-of-view, was used on sufferance as a means of one-man operating double-deckers. Perhaps it was thought worth putting up with for the sake of a low floor and entrance step. Understandably they were never a common type. They were around here and there, but not endemic. Such vehicles were usually Fleetlines, but Portsmouth had single-deck Leyland Atlanteans. I can't remember any others. Perhaps there would have been a market for a Bristol VRT saloon. The photograph was taken in Stevenson Square, Manchester.