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Philip Hambling
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 DLK261Y

Location Link/s
Muswell Hill Garage

Date added to site
30/10/2020

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Details: In early 1987, the Leaside District bus operating unit developed a variant of standard red bus livery, adding a black skirt and thick white waistband (as just visible on the bus on the left side of this photo). This was applied to a fair proportion of their fleet of mainly MCW Metrobuses, but was supplanted at the end of the year by a new London-wide livery of red with a grey skirt and thin white waistband. Another practice pioneered by Leaside was the direct procurement of service vehicles, although they also continued to be supplied with some from Central Distribution Services (CDS). Among the first additions were four second-hand Mk2 Ford Transit vans, including DLK261Y seen here at Muswell Hill Garage in October 1988. As an aside, although such vehicles were not managed by CDS, three of the four were included in a CDS list of vehicles dated June 1990. The vans gained the Leaside livery upon acquisition, but DLK261Y had been partially altered to the new grey skirt livery when photographed. Note that the buses in the background include a Leyland Titan as well as two MCW Metrobuses. Since delivery, these two types had generally been kept to their own areas, with Titans in the North-East, East and South-East, and Metrobuses in the West and North. In the late 1980s this policy was diluted with traditional MCW garages such as Muswell Hill and Finchley gaining Titan allocations.

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