They had a depot/workshops on Eastcott Road in Old Town ,Swindon.Went on to become a Stagecoach depot and it is now derelict
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Did PVS sell any on or just scrap them?
No idea, but some of those big bus breakers did sell on the better ārunnersā as play-buses, party buses, wannbe mobile homes and even preservation projects. I know ācos I bought my double-decker from one and eventually sold it on to another.
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More RM carnage at PVS
We had Bristol Lodekkas (west yorkshire) Daimler half cabs i donāt know their proper name Leyland PD3s??? and AEC Regent Vs running around Bradford when i was a kid. Iāve read that many hated the AECs but not much written or i havenāt read about the others. Anyone know anything about the rest? Atlanteans Daimler Fleetlines and the short lived Scanias were the replacements.Then Volvo. Of course Bradford had the last trolley buses which went in the early 70s thereās a video on youtube of the final day running around unrecogniseable Bradford
Six years on buses ramone 1956 to 1962, started with Guy Arabs((5 cylinder Gardner), Daimlers hated them mind you they were old late '40s I think, Leyland PDs great machines but my favourite city bus was the AEC Regent and Renown with Wilson pre select gearbox, half shift on a Bristol Lodekka didnāt like. Did quite a bit of inter-city( limited stop ) with AEC Reliance and one shift with a Leyland Tiger Cub, in that range the Tiger Cub was superior.
Thanks for the reply Oily .I always liked the look of the Lodekkas and the Daimlers that were never on the route to town from where i lived.It was usually trolleys or Leylands. The MKV Regents were occasionally knocking about but not often.I think the problem or so i have read was that the gearbox was a Monocycle??? which apparently was ājerkyā to opperate.No doubt you or Cav will put me right on that one.Bad driver blames his tools or maybe not. All the Bradford Council buses were blue and cream and when new looked great. Then when privatised some colourblind lunatic had them painted in green and cream and it wasnāt a good green.We had some Scania double deckers around 1974 and they caused quite a stir with their modern looks but caused a bigger stir when the gearboxes started acting up.They soon went. We had loads of Atlanteans some with Alexander? bodies and two sets of doors and also Daimlers with the same set up. Not so long ago there was a new double decker painted up in the old blue and cream livery and it looks so much better than First Bus wrap
And all because someone dropped thruppence down the back of the seat!
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Monday September 4th 1982 saw the introduction of new schedules and the mass withdrawal of surplus RMs. Non standard buses were the first to go. Some were cut up at Aldenham. Others went to the Barnsley scrap yards (Wombwell) with instructions to return as salvage various parts.
Passed my PSV with a Guy Arab. In winter months Light the Gardner up at 05:30am and leave it running until 23:00pm
Proper shift then!
I presume thatās partly the increased push for OMO by LT and perhaps the looming privatisation.
āMore room upstairs!ā
Iām not even sure what they are - Dennis Dart perhaps?
No good asking me: Iām unable to identify any bus built after about 1969!
Given you canāt identify a modern bus, how do you get on at a bus stop these days? 
That would account for stories of odd people trying to enter camper vans stopped in traffic. 
Closer to the truth than you think! When I was driving my 1963 half-cab double-decker PD2 camper van conversion up a lane one summer, I saw a man lean out from a bus stop to hail me down. It was a steep hill and I kept on past him, hoping heād notice that there were curtains at the windows and that the bus was two generations too old to be in service. Not a bit of it! I saw him in my mirror run out into the road behind me jumping up and down and waving his arms. Made my day!
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