Scout Motor Services S2 (398JTB) Blackpool
Hopefully one of my Flickr chums will be able to identify the location of this shot of former Leyland Atlantean pre-production demonstrator 398JTB.
This Metro-Cammell bodied vehicle was new in June 1959 and the following month its demonstration to Plymouth City Transport persuaded that undertaking to become one of the first operators to purchase the type in numbers.
In February 1961, when its demo’ days were through, it was sold to Scout Motor Services of Preston, under whose stewardship it is seen here. December the 5th that same year saw Scout finally sell out to the Ribble empire, although the two companies had worked together in a formal partnership for some years.
The date of this picture will be some time after that sell-out as the former Scout vehicles were given “S” prefixes by Ribble (which operated Scout as a subsidiary), and continued in service with Scout fleet names until October 1968 when this vehicle became Ribble‘s No.1970.
Back with our scene and our driver would have today’s Health & Safety Executives apoplectic as he puffs away on his ciggie, his conductor is not visible but he may be hiding from embarrassment at his untidy destination blind adjustment, “Blackburn” clearly visible above “Burnley”.
Route 154 was a Burnley-Blackpool scheduled Ribble route, operated jointly with Burnley, Colne & Nelson Joint Transport and Scout Motors.
The bus would travel from Blackpool, via Kirkham and Preston, calling at Blackburn boulevard before travelling through Clayton-le Moors, Padiham and into Burnley.
Scout Motor Services S2 (398JTB) Blackpool
Hopefully one of my Flickr chums will be able to identify the location of this shot of former Leyland Atlantean pre-production demonstrator 398JTB.
This Metro-Cammell bodied vehicle was new in June 1959 and the following month its demonstration to Plymouth City Transport persuaded that undertaking to become one of the first operators to purchase the type in numbers.
In February 1961, when its demo’ days were through, it was sold to Scout Motor Services of Preston, under whose stewardship it is seen here. December the 5th that same year saw Scout finally sell out to the Ribble empire, although the two companies had worked together in a formal partnership for some years.
The date of this picture will be some time after that sell-out as the former Scout vehicles were given “S” prefixes by Ribble (which operated Scout as a subsidiary), and continued in service with Scout fleet names until October 1968 when this vehicle became Ribble‘s No.1970.
Back with our scene and our driver would have today’s Health & Safety Executives apoplectic as he puffs away on his ciggie, his conductor is not visible but he may be hiding from embarrassment at his untidy destination blind adjustment, “Blackburn” clearly visible above “Burnley”.
Route 154 was a Burnley-Blackpool scheduled Ribble route, operated jointly with Burnley, Colne & Nelson Joint Transport and Scout Motors.
The bus would travel from Blackpool, via Kirkham and Preston, calling at Blackburn boulevard before travelling through Clayton-le Moors, Padiham and into Burnley.