Stagecoach 41165

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Peter Owen

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Nov 24, 2012, 12:43:59 PM11/24/12
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Operating in Merthyr November 2012 on staff duties.
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Barrie Gilbert

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Nov 24, 2012, 2:29:04 PM11/24/12
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This has the accolade of the last vehicle in the Stagecoach fleet that was new to Rhondda Buses.


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garethblu

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Nov 24, 2012, 2:36:48 PM11/24/12
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Can anyone post any pictures from that time?  Was it allocated to Porth or Caerphilly?

Gareth.

Allan Morse

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Nov 24, 2012, 3:02:44 PM11/24/12
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Porth, 169 to 171 were allocated to Caerphilly.
 
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richard field

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Nov 25, 2012, 4:05:30 AM11/25/12
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Here she is when she worked for Rhondda Buses. Wood Street, Cardiff, on the 5th of November 1996.

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Allan Morse

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Nov 25, 2012, 8:15:22 AM11/25/12
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Superb livery.
 
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Here she is when she worked for Rhondda Buses. Wood Street, Cardiff, on the 5th of November 1996.

Richard Field.
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Allan Morse <allan...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
Porth, 169 to 171 were allocated to Caerphilly.
 
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Can anyone post any pictures from that time?  Was it allocated to Porth or Caerphilly?

Gareth.

On Saturday, November 24, 2012 7:29:04 PM UTC, Barrie Gilbert wrote:
This has the accolade of the last vehicle in the Stagecoach fleet that was new to Rhondda Buses.


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Glyn

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Nov 26, 2012, 7:45:24 AM11/26/12
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Didn't they inherit the livery from Cyril Evans ?

Ian Kirby

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Nov 26, 2012, 7:48:05 AM11/26/12
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Yes - that was the revised Caerphilly Busways livery after the Evans services were taken over and subsequently extended to the Rhondda and Parfitt's fleets.  The only difference with the Cyril Evans stage livery was that the skirt was repainted a darker red.

Ian


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Didn't they inherit the livery from Cyril Evans ?

Barrie Gilbert

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Nov 26, 2012, 1:58:15 PM11/26/12
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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.


David Reynolds

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Nov 26, 2012, 3:39:21 PM11/26/12
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I was told 41165 will be replaced by 32940 (old ASDA bus from blackwood) do you know if this is true

Dave

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MARTIN BRAY

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Nov 26, 2012, 4:03:33 PM11/26/12
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Dave, I was told that this was the plan a week or so ago.
 
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David Reynolds

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Nov 26, 2012, 5:11:26 PM11/26/12
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Thank you for confirming Martin

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