South Wales Transport • Part 1

South Wales Transport • Part 1

An archive of views taken in the pre-NBC era, including more recently preserved examples restored to historic liveries. This album also includes the vehicles of N & C Luxury Coaches, Thomas Bros. (Port Talbot) Ltd., United Welsh Services Ltd. and Western Welsh which became part of the enlarged SWT fleet between 1969 and 1971.

<DIV ALIGN=left>AEC Regent V 447 (MCY 407) again at Llanelli Station.
Further high bridge examples were delivered in 1956 (460-480, NCY 451-471) and 1957 (481-500, OCY 664 -683). These were all of the Weymann type except 491-500 which were of the rounder appearance Willowbrook design.
By now the Four Hundreds formed a sizeable part of the SWT fleet and could be found on a variety of work. In Swansea they will be best remembered for shuttling back and fore between Alexandra Road and Sketty (later Sketty Park) on route 74 or crawling across Townhill on crowded summer services from Morriston to Caswell Bay.</DIV>

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AEC Regent V 447 (MCY 407) again at Llanelli Station. Further high bridge examples were delivered in 1956 (460-480, NCY 451-471) and 1957 (481-500, OCY 664 -683). These were all of the Weymann type except 491-500 which were of the rounder appearance Willowbrook design. By now the Four Hundreds formed a sizeable part of the SWT fleet and could be found on a variety of work. In Swansea they will be best remembered for shuttling back and fore between Alexandra Road and Sketty (later Sketty Park) on route 74 or crawling across Townhill on crowded summer services from Morriston to Caswell Bay.