A new Managing Director was appointed in the 18 months or so prior to Stagecoach purchasing the Rhondda Buses and Parfitts businesses in December 1997. He was instrumental in extending the Caerphilly Busways-inspired livery to vehicles based at Porth due to the sombre appearance of the maroon and cream livery, which looked superb when first applied but did not weather well.
In practice, not that many Porth vehicles were repainted into the new livery before the introduction of Stagecoach's 'white and stripes' scheme. However, the P-TDW and P- TNY batches of Mercedes carried it from new and three secondhand Lynx and a Leyland National 2 received it upon acquisition. I'm sure somebody else can expand on this. The new livery had already been introduced for the Parfitts operation from Autumn 1995 with the delivery of new Darts 62/3 (N62/3 MTG) and the transfer of some of the former Inter Valley Link East Lancs-bodied Tigers from the Rhondda fleet. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Welsh Bus Photographs" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/welsh-bus-photographs/-/RkosKFQfBFoJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/welsh-bus-photographs?hl=en.
