Liverpool Corporation A40 was one of 100 AEC Mk III new buses around 1953. With the exception of
A39 and A40, they had bodywork by Crossley of Manchester. However, A39 and A40 were bodied
by Saunders Roe at Beaumaris in Anglesey. A40 arrived and went into service at Prince Alfred Rd
depot with the aluminium bodywork unpainted. It soon became known locally as “The Silver Ghost”.
In its later life, A40 received green paint on the centre band between the lower and upper decks.
During the next few years, several more new buses were supplied unpainted, including Leyland PD2
No. L295 from about 1955. Unpainted A40 is still here today, with Merseyside Transport Trust.
Ray Smyth.
