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Yelloway (ATL) SPY 373X at the Rochdale garage – 9 Mar 1986 (35-4)

Saturday 8 March 1986 – In July 1985 the Yelloway business which had been managed by the Allen family for more than 50 years was sold to a new owner. Changes ensued which might have portrayed an air of an optimistic future that sadly was not going to be.

A new style livery layout was introduced which was not unattractive in its own way but nothing to compare with what had gone before as carried by the original Yelloway coaches parked alongside (CDK 176L and HVU 243N).

The new owner was a coach trader and the U.K. dealership for the German manufacturer of Neoplan coaches and vehicles of that make were assigned to Yelloway as were other makes of vehicle taken from their trade stock some of these having already been well used by previous operators. These secondhand vehicles replaced the newer higher value Leyland Tigers bought before the company changed ownership that went for early sale.

One such vehicle was SPY 373X, a Plaxton Supreme bodied Leyland Leopard that was new to Martindale Coaches of Ferryhill, County Durham in March 1982.
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