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A while ago, JDN712, the Reliance of York Daimler Freeline was mentioned and doubt was expressed over the manufacturer of its body, but was confirmed as being by Duple.
This is a picture of it I took in about 1962 (I would guess). Apologies for the quality, but I was still at school, my camera and film had been purchased at Woolworths, as it is all I could afford. The bus is just departing Exhibition Square at York and looks like it is bound for Helmsley or Brandsby.
In my opinion the basic shape of the bus resembles the Brush bodies supplied in the early 1950s to BET concerns on Leyland Royal Tiger chassis but the sliding windows are pure Duple and were common on their bus bodies of the time.

Photo taken by David Daniels, c.1962, Exhibition Square, York

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