An interval of five years followed before more trolleys were bought in 1939 - and these were considerably more conventional, being AEC 661T's with Strachan 56 seat highbridge bodies, 124-9 (BHJ194-9). Their arrival enabled the Garretts and 110/1 to be withdrawn, but with the onset of the second war Southend soon found itself with a surplus of buses and 124-7 were hired to Bradford Corporation from September 1940 until February 1942 for the princely sum of £20 per vehicle per month (motor buses 207-10 were similarly sent to Coventry). Their return allowed the complete closure of the tramway.
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127 by Victoria Station post-war