An epic trip on a then everyday bus that had been hired to take people on a grand day out.
A double-decker bus bound for the Welshpool and Llanfair steam railway on Easter Monday of 1974. The bus, a survivor from the Wolverhampton Corporation's fleet, had been hired by the West Midlands Transport Circle for a special 140-mile trip from Wolverhampton through Shropshire and down into Wales
The bus, which at the time was the oldest ex-Wolverhampton Corporation bus still in public service, had been hired by members of the West Midlands Transport Circle on this occasion for a day trip of epic proportions down to Wales. Though this version of the photo is black and white, the caption informs us that the bus still sported the Wolverhampton Corporation's green and primrose livery, five years after the corporation had merged with public transport fleets in Birmingham, Walsall and West Bromwich to form the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive.
You can see that Craven Arms is on the bus's destination board - the south Shropshire town must have been on the route.
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