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Having completed its restoration SHMD 108, XLG477, made one of its first forays away from its base to be at the 1960s weekend in the series of events held at Boyle Street to commemorate 200 years of the bus.
It was new as 77 but was renumbered 108 in November 1961 when all the single-deckers were numbered above 100 as group, not just as a means of identification but also as a way of freeing up some numbers as the fleet size was fitting the range 1-99 rather snugly!
It was one of a pair of Atkinson Alpha PL745Hs (77 and 78) that were the last vehicles delivered new in the dark green and cream livery and back in 1976 I repainted this one in that scheme, but for a variety of reasons the bus made no subsequent public appearances in that livery. The body is Northern Counties B34+27CD - it arrived in the short period when central entrances were very much in vogue at SHMD. This bus survived until SELNEC days and ran finally with the SELNEC number 5068 until withdrawal in 1971, I believe.

Photo taken by David Beilby, Saturday 27 July 2024, Museum of Transport, Boyle Street, Manchester
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