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Bristol VRT/SL6G with M.C.W. H43/33F body.
Originally West Midlands P.T.E. 4420 in 5/74.
Acquired by National Welsh in 1982, no.HR7443, and subsequently renumbered XR1965 in 1/83 and XR965 3/86.
Photographed operating town service 135, Cwmbran Town Centre - Greenmeadow. St.David's Road, Cwmbran 7th September 1985.
Scania BR111DH with M.C.W. H44/29F body - Metropolitan, new to Newport Corporation 114.
Acquired by a Cwmbran based upholstery company as replacement for KDW83F which was driven under a railway bridge and converted into a mobile hospitality unit branded as Dekkers Hospitalty. It later passed to London Bus Exports, Lydney.
Scania BR111MH with M.C.W. B37D body - MetroScania.
Originally London Transport MS3 later passing to Newport Transport, 103. Acquired by Gwent Constabulary, and converted to a mobile Community Affairs display.
Photographed on Turnpike Road, Cwmbran outside Police Headquarters, 9th December 1992.
A retired Hong Kong 1977 M.C.W. Super Metrobus ML1, 3 axle model, now owned and displayed by the Sydney Bus Museum.
On parade laps at the Veteran & Vintage Show at Sydney Motorsport Park.
Eastern Creek, New South Wales, Australia.
It's exactly as it says on the sign!
Another here from the remains of the M.C.W. archives.
London's last Metropolitan, numerically, is seen at the M.C.W. gatehouse. The date is either December 1976 or January 1977.
A retired Hong Kong 1977 M.C.W. Super Metrobus ML1, 3 axle model, now owned and displayed by the Sydney Bus Museum.
On parade laps at the Veteran & Vintage Show at Sydney Motorsport Park.
Eastern Creek, New South Wales, Australia.
JRH324E Leyland Panther with M.C.W. Topaz body new as 824 in 1967. Seen in Wellington Street, Leeds in May 1976 in the dreaded National White livery. This photo was originally taken as a slide which has suffered some damage.
Bristol VRT/SL6G with H43/33F M.C.W. body. Ex-West Midlands P.T.E. 4436.
Glyndwr Road, Cwmbran 7th August 1986.
Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX with M.C.W. H42/33F body. Ex-City of Cardiff Transport 482 in November 1979. Cardiff bus station August 1980.
Preserved Yorkshire Traction M.C.W. Metroliner 400GT 99, E 99 AAK is currently based on the Isle of Man and carries Manx registration MMN 400 G. It has been restored in the National Express Rapide livery which it carried when new and is pictured at a rally and heritage running day in Brough.
South Wales Transport 260, D260 PEP. these were the worst buses i have ever driven (Photo From A Print By Steve Powell)
Flick album : U.K. Buses in the 1990,s
M.C.W. '2903' route branded '101 Centre Bus'
Birmingham city centre, 14th September 1996. Scan from a slide.
Tapins Coaches, Didcot, Oxfordshire. E471SON
M C W Metrobus DR102 / 63 H75F
Tesco Store, Abingdon .
E471SON was new to London-Buses as M1471.
Seen at the North East Bus and Coach Rally at Gateshead Metrocentre sometime in the mid 1990's, is this M.C.W. Metroliner DR130/10, reg no C158UHN with CH57/17Ct bodywork. The vehicle was new to United Automobile Services in 1985 as 158 for National Express Duties, but it is seen here in later life when owned by Bond Bros. of Willington, Co. Durham. Finally, it was exported and converted to open top.
Photo: Neil Harrison
China Motor Bus Metrobus MB7 waits at Shau Kei Wan Bus Terminus. It is a M.C.W. Metrobus DR105/1 with MCW bodywork. Seating capacity is H70/48. One of a batch of 39 it was delivered to C.M.B in 1979.
Route 720 is an Island Eastern Corridor express route, linking Shau Kei Wan with Central it is 10.6KM in length
Scan from a slide. Fuji film / Minolta 700. April 1997
Black Prince M.C.W. Scania BR111DH 'Metropolitan' 204, KJD 204 P was new to London Transport (#MD4) before passing to Reading Transport (#410) and is pictured in Pudsey town centre.
Bristol VRT/SL6G with M.C.W. H43/33F body. Ex-West Midlands P.T.E. 4420 in 1982, and originally numbered XR1965.
Cwmbran bus station, 7th August 1986.
G.M. Buses (North) G.M.N. Express liveried Northern Counties bodied M.C.W. Metrobus 5204, C 204 FVU on layover at Bolton bus station.
Central Coachways M.C.W. Metroliner 400GT 1906, E 906 TOJ is pictured whilst on layover at Victoria Coach Station, London. This coach later passed to Yorkshire Traction (#98) where it was re-registered YTC 858, being renumbered 50001 when Stagecoach acquired Traction Group and regained its original registration upon sale to Ensignbus, Purfleet (#464) who re-registered it 864 DYE which had originally been carried by London Transport Routemaster RM1864.before passing to Shoreline Suncruisers, Scarborough where it had yet another registration, this time GIG 4930 reverting its original mark upon sale to Invincible, Tamworth where it has been re-registered yet again, this time as PCK 335 which was originally carried by a Ribble 'lowbridge' Weymann bodied Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 (#1702), which is coincidental as this coach was diverted from Ribble to Central Coachways when new. this is one of only three Metroliner 400GTs to be built.
Metro Cammell-Weymann (M.C.W) Super Metrobus 12m
Brightbus ( Former CMB Hong Kong )
F84UJN ( DZ 1845 #ML72 )
GOG684N. Bristol VRT / M.C.W..
Lonsdale Coaches of Heysham.
Allover livery for ASDA Lancaster.
New 1975 to West Midlands PTE as 4684.
Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 with M.C.W. L39/33F body.
New 5/62 to Ribble Motor Services Ltd.
Photographed in Carlisle bus station, 9th June 1977.
A 1950 Metro Cammel Weyman Titan PD2 Series double decker bus converted to a café and parked by Sutton Harbour. It was last in service with the Borough of Bournemouth.
“Clippy” was a nickname for bus conductresses, before the advent of driver only buses.
Preserved Strathtay M.C.W. Metrorider 213, E 186 BNS is pictured approaching Brough Sowerby whilst taking part in a heritage running day.. This bus was new to Strathclyde's Buses (#M89) before being transferred to G.C.T. (#GM47) and later to Kelvin Central (#1059 then MM34 & finally MM89). It was later sold to Yorkshire Traction, initially for spares but deemed too good for that and placed in service numbered 352 before being transferred to Strathtay where it remained until being bought for preservation.
MCW Metrorider MF150/104 with DP25F body, new to Inter Valley Link, 103, in October 1988.
Acquired from Inter Valley Link in August 1989.
Photographed entering Cardiff bus station, 25th May 1991.
Newport Corporation M.C.W. bodied Scania BR111MH 'Metro-Scania' 46, VDW 446 K is pictured on Morecambe promenade whilst on hire to City of Lancaster in August 1974.
Part of my collection, photographer unknown.
Bristol VRT/SL2/6G with M.C.W. H43/33F body. Ex-West Midlands P.T.E. 4439 in 1982. North Road, Croesyceiliog, Cwmbran 7th September 1985.
Preserved Kelvin Central Buses Alexander RL bodied M.C.W. Metrobus 1615, ULS 615 T is framed by a lamp fitting on the footbridge of Kirkby Stephen Railway station as it ascends to the station whilst operating on the 'heritage' bus service at the Cumbria Easter Rally 2018. This bus was originally in the Midland Scottish fleet numbered MRM15, numbered M15 upon the formation of Kelvin Scottish and later passing to Midland Red North (#1895), Midland Fox (#2485), P.C. Coaches, Lincoln and Dunn-Line, Nottingham before passing into preservation.
G.M.Buses Express liveried Northern Counties bodied M.C.W. Metrobus 5209, C 209 FVU is pictured in Bury whilst working 'Trans Lancs Express' service 400 from Bolton to Stockport.
Red Bus was the trading name of A2B Coaches, a Bispham based operator which operated a route from Cleveleys bus station to Blackpool Pleasure Beach via the promenade and charging a £1 flat fare. This service ran during the summer 2001 season using a fleet of M.C.W. Metrobuses that were new to London Transport and were acquired from Arriva London and all which operated in as acquired condition but the service was not a sucess and the company folded, with the vehicles all passing to Archway Travel of Poulton-le-Fylde. Pictured at Blackpool Pleasure Beach is BYX 280 V, originally numbered M280 in the L.T. fleet and wearing the short-lived Cowie Group London livery that was used prior to the adoption of the Arriva London livery.
After Dublin Bus Forming in 1987, The Company set about acquiring some new Double Decker Buses.
Trialling Commenced in 1988 with the First to arrive was M.C.W. Metrobus 'MD1' [F181 YDA']. Metro Camell had even gone to the trouble of painting the bus into the new Dublin Bus livery.
Also Trialled was Leyland Olympian LD1 [F 817 URN] in an All white Livery. They both Toured all Garages, although they were never in the the Same Garage Simultaneously.
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Line of of Heysham Travel vehicles at Middleton Road depot, Heysham. From left to right are:
6177, RSG 817 V Leyland National 2 (new to Fife Scottish)
7781, D 81 TLV Freight Rover Sherpa / Carlyle (new to North Western)
1646, HTJ 646 P Leyland Atlkantean AN68 / Alexander AL in Merseybus livery
3010, GBU 10 V M.C.W. Metrobus (new to Greater Manchester Transport)
Ribble 1765 Leyland PD3/5 M.C.W. body.
New 1962 .RCK 910 . Seen on service 552 Lancaster to Capernwray.
Bristol VRT/SL2/6G with H43/33F M.C.W. body. Ex-West Midlands P.T.E. 4405 in 1982. Operating a Chepstow - Newport service near Portskewett, 29th October 1983.
Leyland Panther PSUR1/2R with M.C.W. Topaz C44F body.
New 6/67 to East Yorkshire Motor Services Ltd. One of a pair of a rare combination of Leyland Panther/MCW coaches.
Photographed in Hull depot, 3rd January 1976.
One of two prototype M C W Metrobuses that entered service in 1979 with WMPTE with a Rolls Royce engine
Stagecoach In Lincolnshire M.C.W. Metrobus MkII 15934, NOA 439 X was originally numbered 2439 in the West Midlands fleet, passing to Road Car where it was numbered 769 prior to the Stagecoach takeover of the Traction Group which included Road Car. It is pictured on layover at Scunthorpe bus station in company with Wright Endurance bodied Volvo B10B 21014, N 451 HWY (left) and E.C.W. bodied Leyland Olympian 14089, B 502 FFW (right).