Toward the end of 1973, or early into 1974, Wigan Corporation Transport decided to purchase 6 Bristol LH
bus chassis, with bodywork by Eastern Coachworks of Lowestoft. During 1974, the Corporation bus fleet
had become part of Greater Manchester Transport, so the 6 Bristols were delivered in the dreadful orange
and white GMT livery by the time they arrived. I think that they would have looked good in the traditional livery
of “Carmine Red & White”. One of them, BNE 768N is seen at the layover bus park in Station Road, Wigan.
Another of the 6, BNE 765N is seen in 1985, when in the ownership of Flora of Helston, Cornwall.
Ray Smyth.
