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Waites, Altrincham CKV 506D

            The only 'opposition' to Shearings in Altrincham was JT Waites Coaches, based a mile out of the town at Broadheath. Also known locally as "Waites Crates", they ran an almost 100% Ford fleet (just as Shearings had done), a mixture of new and secondhand. 

They dealt quite a lot with Don Everall at Wolverhampton, who in 1978 had undertaken these quite bizarre conversions to a pair of Ford R226 / Duple Mariner coaches, chopping out the middle and rear end sections to produce vehicles with 33-35 seats. Everalls must have taken inspiration from Midland Red, who a year earlier had started to convert some of their Ford R192 Plaxton Derwent buses to shortened 27-seaters, by roughly the same method. This one had started out life with Red House Coaches at Coventry, while the other (HDA 559D) had been new to Don Everall during the firm's operating years. 

This thing was said to be horribly unreliable, and I think they quickly got to the point of being afraid to send it out, so it languished in the garage until its disposal - I bet Everalls didn't want it back either ! Their long, narrow garage wasn't a helpful place for photos, but I am glad I got this one of it, which a bit of tweaking has made look half decent. 

The firm was bought by a former manager of National Travel (West) in 1985, along with Mancunia Travel, who ran a pair of full executive coaches. The combined operation was re-branded as Sierra Coaches, and upgraded with further heavyweight vehicles, but soon ran out of money, and folded in March 1987.

Taken on: November 1, 1984

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