Buses, coaches, & lorries

Ray Smyth:
Ribble Leyland PD3, Fleet No. 1974 was new to Scout Motor Services of Preston.
It is seen here beside Lime Street Station in Skelhorne Street, Liverpool, where
it was not very popular with the bus crews of whatever Ribble Liverpool depot
that it now belonged to.
Ray Smyth.

I wonder why it ended up in Liverpool! Although it later came back to Frenchwood in its latter years

As you say, it started life with Scout Motors of Preston:

Scout 21 [LRN62] by maljoe, on Flickr

When Scout was acquired (I think around 1962) the fleet received Ribble livery, but still with Scout names and numbers:

RIB LRN62 by Brian Bennett, on Flickr

Like many Scout vehicles, it survived long enough to suffer the indignity of NBC livery, and then ended up with an independent in Cornwall - must have been a long old delivery drive!!

Here’s the link to it, but the post doesn’t allow the image to be previewed on here: flickr.com/photos/30794964@ … sFy-u5EeL9