Not going to Abergele - a photo on Flickriver

The North Western Road Car Company Limited is fading from the memory now, but from the 1920s to the 1970s it was one of the biggest and most famous bus companies in the North of England. Its bus services served a huge swathe of territory from Northwich in the West to the Peak District fringes of Sheffield in the East, and from Rochdale in the North to Matlock in the South.

Its end was brought about because many of its services, and almost all it most profitable ones, were in the south of Greater Manchester and SELNEC wanted to control these - and was willing to buy the part of North Western that was in its area. What was left after that simply wasn't viable, so North Western's owner the National Bus Company split the remainder up between neighbours Trent and Crosville.

The company had an extensive coaching operation, on both express services and private hire tours. For a while, some of the latter was directed through subsidiary companies such as Melba Motors of Reddish, to which RDB830 was allocated when it was new in 1960. Nine years later the Melba subsidiary had been wound up and 830 was back in the main fleet; and as it was getting long in the tooth for front line private hire duties, it was kept in shorter runs and quite often allocated - to the surprise and delight of its customers - to short stage carriage services such as the ten-minute run on the 184 to Broomwood Estate on the outskirts of Altrincham. But woe betide anyone trying to board this high-floored vehicle with a pushchair, or with reduced mobility...

830 is long gone, but Altrincham station remains as a rail, Metrolink and bus interchange. And you can still find North Western buses - at the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester, where we have several restored and on display. If you'd like to know more about the Museum of Transport and its collection of vintage buses, go to motgm.uk.

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Taken on: January 1, 1969

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