WMPTE 849L Birchills bus garage, Walsall, 1973

            Its front end cowling, radiator and steering wheel removed, withdrawn WMPTE 849L sits forlorn at the side of the 'Carl Street' garage entrance awaiting its tow to the breaker's yard. Walsall's painter's haven't bothered to add the 'L' suffix after the fleet number, something they were seemingly not too fussed about in the early days of WMPTE. Just 3-years before, a few former Walsall trolleybuses made redundant by the PTE had also sat here in readiness for collection by the scrappers. 

New to Walsall Corporation in February 1960,  849 was one of eight Dennis Loline II's (842 - 849) delivered to Walsall early that year, all fitted with Loughborough built Willowbrook bodywork. Renumbered 849L by the PTE, the bus was an early example to see withdrawal coming off the road in April 1972. A few of this batch got painted into WMPTE livery and lasted into 1974. Not a single one of these buses survived, all being sold for scrap by WMPTE.

Photo - July 1973.

Taken on: May 18, 2020

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WMPTE

849L

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July

1973

Walsall Corporation

Walsall

blue

WEST MIDLANDS

scrap

scrapper

dennis

loline

249HDH « less

Sets appears in: • Scrap yards, scrap vehicles • Walsall more » • WMPTE North Division « less

Groups appears in: • Classic and preserved buses and coaches

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