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>The Four Hundreds were taken out of service between 1966 and 1968. The writer remembers seeing lines of these vehicles awaiting disposal at Ravenhill in 1967-68. In those days, buses were withdrawn as batches based on age, rather than because of the condition of particular vehicles.
Seen after withdrawal at Ravenhill in 1967 is AEC Regent V/Weymann H32/28R 482 (OCY 665).
It is worth noting that when SWT had purchased early examples of AEC Regent Vs in 1955, it would clearly, eventually, become amongst the first to take them out of service. SWT was totally unique at that time in replacing one batch of Regent Vs with a more modern version of the same marque; these were to become known as the ‘Six Hundreds’.</DIV>

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The Four Hundreds were taken out of service between 1966 and 1968. The writer remembers seeing lines of these vehicles awaiting disposal at Ravenhill in 1967-68. In those days, buses were withdrawn as batches based on age, rather than because of the condition of particular vehicles. Seen after withdrawal at Ravenhill in 1967 is AEC Regent V/Weymann H32/28R 482 (OCY 665). It is worth noting that when SWT had purchased early examples of AEC Regent Vs in 1955, it would clearly, eventually, become amongst the first to take them out of service. SWT was totally unique at that time in replacing one batch of Regent Vs with a more modern version of the same marque; these were to become known as the ‘Six Hundreds’.