Wonderful photo David.
However 381 is not in its original livery.
When delivered 381 had an additional cream band under the upper deck windows
with all the beading painted black.
The fleetnames were originally on the lower panels with a larger crest.
2 of the buses in the background with minimal cream were painted at Sloper
Road depot,buses painted at Newport Road for some reason retained a cream
band above the lower deck windows.
Someone perhaps knows the reasoning behind this?
Allan
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From: "David Beilby" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; "Welsh Bus Photos"
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Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 9:27 PM
Subject: Cardiff Regent forty years ago
The last of this little batch of forty-year old photos shows Cardiff
381 in the Bus Station on 24th June 1970. 381 was the last of the
first batch of ten AEC Regent Vs which were also the only ones with
vacuum brakes, later deliveries being air-braked. As with so many
buses of the era in this fleet, the body was by East Lancs. 381
carries the original style of maroon livery with plenty of cream and
fleetname on the waistband in shaded letters. Later repaints had less
cream and a more modern fleetname and the two variants can be easily
compared on the three buses to the left. Not long after this photo
the livery was changed to the orange which survived until quite
recently.
Regards,
David Beilby
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