A Teesside Municipal Transport bus seen in Stockton High Street c1970s.
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A Teesside Municipal Transport bus seen in Stockton High Street c1970s.
This is a member of a class of fifteen Leyland Atlanteans originally ordered by Stockton Corporation, but delivered to Teesside Municipal Transport in 1970. It is in the unusual Turquoise livery and has Northern Counties dual door bodywork to bus grant specifications. (similar bodystyle could be found on buses in Merseyside)The picture can be dated to 1970-71 by the fact that the bus has the narrow cream band above the windows (it was revised in 1972 to extend to below the windows). This class went on to have long lives with Cleveland Transit, with twelve out of the fifteen having new single door bodies fitted between 1986 – 1988. Even more suprisingly most of this batch were sold to East Yorkshire for service in Hull with the last one being not being withdrawn until around 2005!
I used to regularly get that bus to school