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Ex corporation buses.
Ex corporation buses.
Photo: Eddie.
Views: 1,951
Item #: 27196
Wigan buses in SELNEC colours, withdrawn from service, await their fate at the old L.U.T. bus garage in Platt Bridge in 1982.

Photo credit. Terry Lawrenson.

Comment by: scott wall on 11th December 2015 at 15:04

nice pictures them terry, will have to show them my dad, when he visits.

Comment by: Colin Harlow on 11th December 2015 at 16:50

The only genuine Wigan bus that I can see is DEK 5E.
Well done Eddie.

Comment by: Colin Harlow on 11th December 2015 at 17:04

Look how beautiful DEK 5E looks in Wigan Corporation colours on Station Rd. put Item number 17879 in search.

Comment by: Carolaen on 11th December 2015 at 19:04

Even in the day ie the 1950s and 60s when I was a school boy I though how genuinely beautiful the Wigan buses were compared with other towns - although I liked the Bolton chocolate and cream as second best. I think it was a real case of all the design coming together in perfection, the colours, the gilded lettering, the coat of arms and the unique green lights. Sheer perfection. I presume somebody designed that look , they should have had a knighthood. And its not just Wiganers On a recent holiday in Northumberland we were sharing a table with a couple from Bexhill on Sea. The husband was a bus fanatic who had come to see the old bus garage in Hexham. When I told him I was from Wigan his face lit up and he waxed lyrical about the buses and those 2 green lights. See its not just us who thought they were wonderful !!

Comment by: norman gerrard on 11th December 2015 at 21:04

AND THE TWO PANTHERS !

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