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There were plenty of SBG Y-types around, but my favourite was this Strathtay one, which brought back memories of holidays based in Perth in the 80s and 90s. This had been Alexander Northern's final one of this combination, but it passed to Strathtay on that fleet's initiation in June 1985.
Mercedes SK Loader Truck, D900 XSS, Trade Plated ex P. Ewing Civil Engineering Co. Ltd, Blair Lodge.
A long distance cascade from Aberdeen to Devon, with Red Bus names, but still in not-very-red Grampian livery. That being said, she still looks in quite good nick for an 18-year-old bus. Looking at the current location on Google maps and the bus station site sadly appears to have been sacrificed for extra car parking.
Ilfracombe, Bus Station, 25/06/2001. Posted 12/12/2022.
Another preserved Scottish Leyland Leopard climbing out of Brough on 16th April, 2022. XSS 43Y carries Strathtay Scottish livery.
The eighth and final batch of Leyland Atlantean / Alexander AL buses for Aberdeen and Grampian Regional Transport entered service during the first three months of 1983. There were fifteen buses, 331 - 345 (XSS 331Y - XSS 345Y). 331, (XSS 331Y) was new in an all over advert for the Bus and Coach Council Scotland's "We'd all miss the bus" campaign, while the remaining fourteen were the first new Atlanteans delivered in the green and cream Grampian Scottish livery.
The batch, and the whole fleet, passed to Grampian Regional Transport Ltd on 26 October 1986. On 18 January 1989 the business was acquired by a management employee buyout under the auspices of GRT Holdings plc. In March 1998 Grampian Regional Transport Ltd was renamed First Aberdeen Ltd.
The first withdrawal from the batch following accident damage, was 342 in August 1997, which was sold for scrap in December that year.
2001 saw the withdrawal of the remaining fourteen buses, with many going to First Western National (332 - 335, 338, 340 & 341), and others going to Northampton Transport (331, 337 & 339), Midland Bluebird (335 & 344), and G E Mair (336 but not used, before passing to Midland Bluebird), or for scrap (343).
After a period with Midland Bluebird, 344 (by then 31577), returned to Aberdeen by June 2005. It was still being worked on in April 2006 to convert it into a mobile classroom to help educate children about the negative effects bus vandalism. By around 2010 former 344 was stored at the back yard at King Street Garage. In early 2014 it was driven to the Bus Collection at Alford where the engine and other useable parts were recovered for use on preserved Atlanteans, particularly 154 (NRG 154M). Former 344 was subsequently noted at Bridge of Don Barracks, Aberdeen.
In April 2001 345, numerically the last new Atlantean, passed to, and is currently in the care of, the Aberdeen and District Transport Preservation Trust, who plan to finish it in 1986 Brunswick green skirt and wheels Grampian Transport livery.
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Seen at Kirkby Stephen is preserved Strathtay Scottish Alexander AYS bodied Leyland Leopard PSU3G/4R, SL43 XSS 43Y.
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Aberdeen Corporation Transport (ACT) 173 (NRG 173M), 1973 Leyland Atlantean AN68/1R / Alexander AL H45/29D photographed on Holburn Street, Aberdeen on 22 February 1974.
173 was one of a batch of twenty-four Alexander AL bodied buses received in 1973/74, 154 – 177 (NRG 154M etc). They followed twelve similarly bodied Daimler Fleetline CRL6-30, 142 – 153 (VRS 142L etc) received in 1973. ACT became Grampian Regional Transport in May 1975 and the new undertaking would take delivery of a further one hundred and five Atlanteans with virtually identical Alexander AL bodies. These were 178 – 197 (KSA 178P etc) in 1976, 198 – 217 (ORS 198R etc) in 1977, 218 – 237 (XSA 218S etc, YSO 228T etc) in 1978, 238 – 257 (DSA 238T etc) in 1979, 261 – 300 (HRS 261V etc, HSO 281V etc, LRS 291W etc) in 1980, 301 – 315 (NRS 301W etc) in 1981, 316 – 330 (URS 316X etc) in 1982 and finally 333 – 345 (XSS 333Y etc) in 1983.
Fleet numbers 258 – 260 were not used. 278/280 were delivered bearing erroneous registration numbers HSO 278/280V and briefly operated as such.
142 – 153 and 154 – 177 were received in green and cream Aberdeen Corporation Transport livery.
178 – 330 arrived in Grampian Regional Transport orange band and wheels livery.
331 was delivered in a cream based “We’d all miss the bus” all over advert livery for the Bus and Coach Council, Scotland.
332 – 345 were delivered in Grampian Scottish livery (green lower panels with cream above). (337 had a white based broadside advert for Robert Rae by late 1984, so I may have had that from new.)
At least four of the Atlantean / Alexander AL fleet are in preservation.
154 (NRG 154M) – The first of a batch of twenty four Leyland AN68/1R/ which entered service with Aberdeen between November 1973 and January 1974. The bus transferred to Grampian Regional Transport in May 1975. It was withdrawn in 1983 passing to the service fleet as a driver tuition vehicle by October that year. Following transfer to Grampian Regional Transport Ltd in October 1986 it continued to be used for driver training until withdrawal in January 1989, when it was repainted in 1986 Grampian Transport livery moved (engineless) to the Grampian Transport Museum. In recent years it has moved to the adjacent Bus Collection at Alford where it is being re-equipped with and engine (thought to be from former 344 (XSS 344Y) and running gear.
209 (ORS 209R) – New in 1977 and one of the second batch to be delivered in the orange band livery. It operated with Strathclyde Buses in Grampian Transport livery with a Strathclyde Red (orange) front in the early 1990s. After withdrawal in January 1993 this bus operated with Midland Bluebird as 709. It passed to A&DTPT in in November 1999 and is currently beautifully turned out in Grampian orange band livery – with front wheel nut ring covers (which regrettably were never carried during its service life).
270 (HRS 270V) – one of the 1980 batch, Withdrawn in May 1996, sold to Aberdeen Journals Ltd in November 1996. Modified to an Exhibition Unit and reregistered 9542 PJ circa 1996. June 1997. Reregistered back to HRS 270V around May 2002 into the ownership of Andrew, Aberdeen as a mobile caravan. This is another bus which has been restored on Grampian orange band livery.
345 (XSS 345Y) – a 1983 bus, it was the last new Atlantean delivered in Scotland. Withdrawn in March 2001, it passed the following month to A&DTPT. I believe it will be finished in 1986 Grampian Transport Brunswick green skirt livery,
Other rear engine double deckers with Alexander (A Type) bodies bought by ACT were Daimler Fleetlines 100 – 111 (ERG 100D etc) in 1966, Leyland Atlanteans 112 – 121 (GRS 112E etc) in 1967. In 1971 30 foot long Alexander L Types 122 – 141 (PRG 122J etc were acquired.
A few more Atlanteans were acquired in the mid 1970s. Former Greater Glasgow PTE (LA149 – SGD 727) a Leyland Atlantean / Alexander was bought in 1976 for use as a driver tuition vehicle and allocated fleet number 91. It lasted until early 1982. As a stop gap when delivery of new buses was delayed Grampian bought twelve mid 1960s Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 with a mix of Alexander, Weymann and Metro-Cammell bodies from Tyne and Wear PTE in October 1977. These were allocated fleet numbers 277 – 288. Eleven were operated and one was dismantled for spares. All were withdrawn in 1979/80.
Once again much of the information here is gleaned from The PSV Circle publication PM21 “A Fleet History of First Aberdeen and its predecessors”. If anyone is able to update and expand on these notes, please get in touch.
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Two batches of Alexander AL bodied buses were delivered to Aberdeen Corporation Transport in 1973 - twelve Daimler Fleetline CRL6-30 and twenty four Leyland AN68/1R. The Fleetlines entered service in March 1973, with the Atlanteans hitting the road in November and December 1973 and January 1974.
Adjacent to 142 is Leyland National 42 (VRS 42L), which, with 41 and 43, was delivered in all over cream. The roof had been painted green at this stage, but the skirt would gain green paint and the silver wheels cream paint before the bus entered service in February 1973.
Both 142 and 42 were displayed in the King Street Garage yard during an Open day on 3 February 1973.
ACT became Grampian Regional Transport in May 1975 and the new undertaking would take delivery of a further one hundred and five Atlanteans with virtually identical Alexander AL bodies. These were 178 – 197 (KSA 178P etc) in 1976, 198 – 217 (ORS 198R etc) in 1977, 218 – 237 (XSA 218S etc, YSO 228T etc) in 1978, 238 – 257 (DSA 238T etc) in 1979, 261 – 300 (HRS 261V etc, HSO 281V etc, LRS 291W etc) in 1980, 301 – 315 (NRS 301W etc) in 1981, 316 – 330 (URS 316X etc) in 1982 and finally 333 – 345 (XSS 333Y etc) in 1983.
Fleet numbers 258 – 260 were not used.
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A well- travelled Dennis Dart SLF/Plaxton Pointer on the recently won tendered service 108 (Macclesfield - Leek). Dunno why the display shows 'County Hall' though!!
At one time it was virtually unknown for a former First Group bus to ever see service with another operator, never mind one still clearly carrying remnants of First's livery! However, I understand this was one of the vehicles that was included in the disposal of First's operations in Redditch and Kidderminster to Rotala - thus the 'Diamond' fleetname.
It had then passed quickly onto Ensign(Q) and was hired to Goldstraw for use on recently won tendered work at which point I caught up with it. Moved on again fairly quickly.
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08/1996 - new to Centrewest (First London) as L3
Numbered 42403 with First Midland Red .
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09/2013 - passed to Goldstraw, Leek (ST).
10/2013 - passed to Ensign (Q).
10/2013 - passed to South East Coachworks, Faversham (Q)
12/2013 - passed to Safe Zone; Edinburgh (XSS) for non-PSV use.
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Three of the body styles that you could have on the Leyland Olympian when new are posed for this shot in Falkirk. Oh, alright, they just happened to be lined up like that. Alexander bodied Atlantean sneaks in at the end too.
The buses are (L-R) XSS 366Y, CUB 46Y, ALS 133Y and B98 SJA
Preserved former Strathtay Scottish Leyland Leopard/Alexander Y-type SL43 - XSS43Y seen between duties at the Dundee transport museum during the recent open day.
18th September 2021.
During 1989/90 Northern Bus made a determined effort to establish itself in the coaching business and won contracts to supply vehicles for several South Yorkshire football teams. Among the coaches obtained for this work was D43 BRS, a MCW Metro-Hiliner HR131/10 which had been new in 1987 as Grampian 57, registered D57 XSS. It is seen here in the Anston Industrial Estate in which NBC's depot was located.
One of a batch of twenty four Leyland AN68/1R/Alexander H45/29D (NRG 154M - NRG 177M) which entered service with ACT between November 1973 and January 1974. These buses transferred to Grampian Regional Transport in May 1975.
154 was withdrawn in 1983 moving to the service fleet as a driver tuition vehicle by October that year. Following transfer to Grampian Regional Transport Ltd in October 1986 it continued to be used for driver training until withdrawal in January 1989, when it was moved (engine-less) to the Grampian Transport Museum where is as on display for some years. In more recent times is was moved to the adjacent Bus Collection premises, where, it is being re-equipped with and engine (thought to be from former 344 (XSS 344Y) and running gear.
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I just got back from the Churchill Club’s 13th Annual Top 10 Tech Trends Debate (site).
Curt Carlson, CEO of SRI, presented their trends from the podium, which are meant to be “provocative, plausible, debatable, and that it will be clear within the next 1-3 years whether or not they will actually become trends.”
Then the panelists debated them. Speaking is Aneesh Chopra, CTO of the U.S., and smirking to his left is Paul Saffo, and then Ajay Senkut from Clarium, then me.
Here are SRI’s 2011 Top 10 Tech Trends [and my votes]:
Trend 1. Age Before Beauty. Technology is designed for—and disproportionately used by—the young. But the young are getting fewer. The big market will be older people. The aging generation has grown up with, and is comfortable with, most technology—but not with today’s latest technology products. Technology product designers will discover the Baby Boomer’s technology comfort zone and will leverage it in the design of new devices. One example today is the Jitterbug cell phone with a large keypad for easy dialing and powerful speakers for clear sound. The trend is for Baby Boomers to dictate the technology products of the future.
[I voted YES, it’s an important and underserved market, but for tech products, they are not the early adopters. The key issue is age-inspired entrepreneurship. How can we get the entrepreneurial mind focused on this important market?]
Trend 2. The Doctor Is In. Some of our political leaders say that we have "the best medical care system in the world". Think what it must be like in the rest of the world! There are many problems, but one is the high cost of delivering expert advice. With the development of practical virtual personal assistants, powered by artificial intelligence and pervasive low-cost sensors, “the doctor will be in”—online—for people around the world. Instead of the current Web paradigm: “fill out this form, and we’ll show you information about what might be ailing you”, this will be true diagnosis—supporting, and in some cases replacing—human medical practitioners. We were sending X-rays to India to be read; now India is connecting to doctors here for diagnosis in India. We see the idea in websites that now offer online videoconference interaction with a doctor. The next step is automation. The trend is toward complete automation: a combination of artificial intelligence, the Internet, and very low-cost medical instrumentation to provide high-quality diagnostics and advice—including answering patient questions—online to a worldwide audience.
[NO. Most doctor check-ups and diagnoses will still need to be conducted in-person (blood tests, physical exams, etc). Sensor technology can’t completely replace human medical practitioners in the near future. Once we have the physical interface (people for now), then the networking and AI capabilities can engage, bringing specialist reactions to locally collected data. The real near-term trend in point-of-care is the adoption of iPads/phones connected to cloud services like ePocrates and Athenahealth and soon EMRs.]
Trend 3. Made for Me. Manufacturing is undergoing a revolution. It is becoming technically and economically possible to create products that are unique to the specific needs of individuals. For example, a cell phone that has only the hardware you need to support the features you want—making it lighter, thinner, more efficient, much cheaper, and easier to use. This level of customization is being made possible by converging technical advances: new 3D printing technology is well documented, and networked micro-robotics is following. 3D printing now includes applications in jewelry, industrial design, and dentistry. While all of us may not be good product designers, we have different needs, and we know what we want. The trend is toward practical, one-off production of physical goods in widely distributed micro-factories: the ultimate customization of products. The trend is toward practical, one-off production of physical goods in widely distributed micro-factories: the ultimate customization of products.
[NO. Personalization is happening just fine at the software level. The UI skins and app code is changeable at zero incremental cost. Code permeates outward into the various vessels we build for it. The iPhone. Soon, the car (e.g. Tesla Sedan). Even the electrical circuits (when using an FPGA). This will extend naturally to biological code, with DNA synthesis costs plummeting (but that will likely stay centralized in BioFabs for the next 3 years. When it comes to building custom physical things, the cost and design challenges relegate it to prototyping, tinkering and hacks. Too many people have a difficult time in 3D content creation. The problem is the 2D interfaces of mouse and screen. Perhaps a multitouch interface to digital clay could help, where the polygons snap to fit after the form is molded by hand.]
Trend 4. Pay Me Now. Information about our personal behavior and characteristics is exploited regularly for commercial purposes, often returning little or no value to us, and sometimes without our knowledge. This knowledge is becoming a key asset and a major competitive advantage for the companies that gather it. Think of your supermarket club card. These knowledge-gatherers will need to get smarter and more aggressive in convincing us to share our information with them and not with their competitors. If TV advertisers could know who the viewers are, the value of the commercials would go up enormously. The trend is technology and business models based on attracting consumers to share large amounts of information exclusively with service providers.
[YES, but it’s nothing new. Amazon makes more on merchandising than product sales margin. And, certain companies are getting better and better at acquiring customer information and personalizing offerings specifically to these customers. RichRelevance provides this for ecommerce (driving 25% of all e-commerce on Black Friday). Across all those vendors, the average lift from personalizing the shopping experience: 15% increase in overall sales and 8% increase in long-term profitability. But, simply being explicit and transparent to the consumer about the source of the data can increase the effectiveness of targeted programs by up to 100% (e.g., saying “Because you bought this product and other consumers who bought it also bought this other product" yielded a 100% increase in product recommendation effectiveness in numerous A/B tests). Social graph is incredibly valuable as a marketing tool.]
Trend 5. Rosie, At Last. We’ve been waiting a long time for robots to live in and run our homes, like Rosie in the Jetsons’ household. It’s happening a little now: robots are finally starting to leave the manufacturing floor and enter people's homes, offices, and highways. Robots can climb walls, fly, and run. We all know the Roomba for cleaning floors—and now there’s the Verro for your pool. Real-time vision and other sensors, and affordable precise manipulation, are enabling robots to assist in our care, drive our cars, and protect our homes and property. We need to broaden our view of robots and the forms they will take—think of a self-loading robot-compliant dishwasher or a self-protecting house. The trend is robots becoming embedded in our environments, and taking advantage of the cloud, to understand and fulfill our needs.
[NO. Not in 3 years. Wanting it badly does not make it so. But I just love that Google RoboCar. Robots are not leaving the factory floor – that’s where the opportunity for newer robots and even humanoid robots will begin. There is plenty of factory work still to be automated. Rodney Brooks of MIT thinks they can be cheaper than the cheapest outsourced labor. So the robots are coming, to the factory and the roads to start, and then the home.]
Trend 6. Social, Really. The rise of social networks is well documented, but they're not really social networks. They're a mix of friends, strangers, organizations, hucksters—it’s more like walking through a rowdy crowd in Times Square at night with a group of friends. There is a growing need for social networks that reflect the fundamental nature of human relationships: known identities, mutual trust, controlled levels of intimacy, and boundaries of shared information. The trend is the rise of true social networks, designed to maintain real, respectful relationships online.
[YES. The ambient intimacy of Facebook is leading to some startling statistics on fB evidence reuse by divorce lawyers (80%) and employment rejections (70%). There are differing approaches to solve this problem: Altly’s alternative networks with partioning and control, Jildy’s better filtering and auto-segmentation, and Path’s 50 friend limit.]
Trend 7. In-Your-Face Augmented Reality. With ever-cheaper computation and advances in computer vision technology, augmented reality is becoming practical, even in mobile devices. We will move beyond expensive telepresence environments and virtual reality games to fully immersive environments—in the office, on the factory floor, in medical care facilities, and in new entertainment venues. I once did an experiment where a person came into a room and sat down at a desk against a large, 3D, high-definition TV display. The projected image showed a room with a similar desk up against the screen. The person would put on 3D glasses, and then a projected person would enter and sit down at the other table. After talking for 5 to 10 minutes, the projected person would stand up and put their hand out. Most of the time, the first person would also stand up and put their hand into the screen—they had quickly adapted and forgotten that the other person was not in the room. Augmented reality will become indistinguishable from reality. The trend is an enchanted world— The trend is hyper-resolution augmented reality and hyper-accurate artificial people and objects that fundamentally enhance people's experience of the world.
[NO, lenticular screens are too expensive and 3D glasses are a pain in the cortex. Augmented reality with iPhones is great, and pragmatic, but not a top 10 trend IMHO]
Trend 8. Engineering by Biologists.
Biologists and engineers are different kinds of people—unless they are working on synthetic biology. We know about genetically engineered foods and creatures, such as gold fish in multiple other colors. Next we’ll have biologically engineered circuits and devices. Evolution has created adaptive processing and system resiliency that is much more advanced than anything we’ve been able to design. We are learning how to tap into that natural expertise, designing devices using the mechanisms of biology. We have already seen simple biological circuits in the laboratory. The trend is practical, engineered artifacts, devices, and computers based on biology rather than just on silicon.
[YES, and NO because it was so badly mangled as a trend. For the next few years, these approaches will be used for fuels and chemicals and materials processing because they lend themselves to a 3D fluid medium. Then 2D self-assembling monolayers. And eventually chips , starting with memory and sensor arrays long before heterogeneous logic. And processes of biology will be an inspiration throughout (evolution, self-assembly, etc.). Having made predictions along these themes for about a decade now, the wording of this one frustrated me]
Trend 9. ‘Tis a Gift to be Simple. Cyber attacks are ever more frequent and effective. Most attacks exploit holes that are inevitable given the complexity of the software products we use every day. Cyber researchers really understand this. To avoid these vulnerabilities, some cyber researchers are beginning to use only simple infrastructure and applications that are throwbacks to the computing world of two decades ago. As simplicity is shown to be an effective approach for avoiding attack, it will become the guiding principle of software design. The trend is cyber defense through widespread adoption of simple, low-feature software for consumers and businesses.
[No. I understand the advantages of being open, and of heterogencity of code (to avoid monoculture collapse), but we have long ago left the domain of simple. Yes, Internet transport protocols won via simplicity. The presentation layer, not so much. If you want dumb pipes, you need smart edges, and smart edges can be hacked. Graham Spencer gave a great talk at SFI: the trend towards transport simplicity (e.g. dumb pipes) and "intelligence in the edges" led to mixing code and data, which in turn led to all kinds of XSS-like attacks. Drive-by downloading (enabled by XSS) is the most popular vehicle for delivering malware these days.]
Trend 10. Reverse Innovation. Mobile communication is proliferating at an astonishing rate in developing countries as price-points drop and wireless infrastructure improves. As developing countries leapfrog the need for physical infrastructure and brokers, using mobile apps to conduct micro-scale business and to improve quality of life, they are innovating new applications. The developing world is quickly becoming the largest market we’ve ever seen—for mobile computing and much more. The trend is for developing countries to turn around the flow of innovation: Silicon Valley will begin to learn more from them about innovative applications than they need to learn from us about the underlying technology.
[YES, globalization is a megatrend still in the making. The mobile markets are clearly China, India and Korea, with app layer innovation increasingly originating there. Not completely of course, but we have a lot to learn from the early-adopter economies.]
This Leyland-bodied Olympian was new to Armchair, Brentford, later passing to Holmeswood. In September 2014 it passed to Megaplaybus, Eyemouth (XSS) where it was converted to a playbus. It now appears to be owned by a playbus group in Wellington, Somerset.
I don't know why, I don't really liked the shape at the beginning. But to be honest, I like the final result. Even if there are still some flaws, I tried NOT to make an AR-Like with what I learned recently. Because it's good to improve, but AR-Likes are kinda classics. So I tried as hard as I could, and finally, I made this.
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A batch of five such buses comprising NPE39 - NPE 43 (XSS 39Y etc), was delivered to W Alexander & Sons (Northern) Ltd in 1982. All five vehicles transferred to Strathtay in 1985 as SL39 - SL43.
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XSS 43Y is a Leyland Leopard PSU3G/4R fitted with Alexander Y-type B53F bodywork and the last of the combination to be delivered to the Scottish Bus Group.
New in December 1982 as Alexander (Northern), NPE43, it later passed to Strathtay Scottish in June 1985 as SL43.
Now preserved, it is seen at Kirkby Stephen Railway Station operating a service from Brough during the Cumbria Easter Rally.