LUT 98, Atherton, Manchester, March 1981

            Although part of Greater Manchester PTE (GMPTE) since 1976, Lancashire United Transport (LUT) was not officially wound up as a company until early 1981. However, in readiness for the full merger, a program to repaint some of LUT's 'red' buses into GMPTE's orange & white colours had already begun prior to 1981.

Receiving GMPTE colours at Atherton Works in 1980, former LUT Daimler Fleetline 98 is already looking work-worn in this 1981 view. I think it true to say that the former LUT red and grey livery was a harder-wearing livery, much better suited to the industrial North.

98 is pictured outside LUT's Atherton Bus Garage & Bus Works where it was based. The engineering workshops were to the left of the picture.

As with the contemporary LUT Guy Arabs Vs that these early Fleetlines worked alongside, their days were numbered. 98 would soon be withdrawn from traffic, and sold for breaking to a Barnsley scrap merchant in the spring of 1982.  

As a footnote, the man to the left of picture is not on a mobile phone (...not in 1981), but is taking a photograph of the Guy Arab V (236) parked behind 98 (out of shot).

Taken on: February 5, 2017

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