Three Volvo Ailsa - three liveries - WMT 1987

On 23 July 1987 three West Midlands Travel Volvo Ailsa buses were parked together at M J Wilcox (Brownhills, Walsall) going through a repaint process as they had been sold to London Transport.

4763 - Repainted in London colours.
4772 - Original ble/cream livery layout
4773 - the Perry Barr "Metrobus" style livery application (more blue, less cream)

All 50 (4738-4787) Ailsa buses of this batch wrere to be sold to LT, at the time of the film some were still running in service from Perry Barr.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Volvo
• Ailsa
• JOV763P
• JOV772P
• JOV773P

[craigybus1]

JOV772P ran with my local of FourSeasons for many years. Was a beast of a bus. They also owned JOV775P

[douglas1249]

They were the best buses. They were in Inverness for sometime

[robuk1981]

yeah i remember the dundee busses screaming as they slowed down i miss the alisas

[LanceMcKenzie1]

What a great moment in time captured on film. I know when I worked at Dudley Garage I would often see these beasts on the road. Although I never heard it myself some people claimed these made a whistling or screaming sound when driven by an inexperienced driver.

[lec0roh]

WMPTE 4738-4787 was the best batch of buses ever built, IMHO.