Title: Alexanders’ Buses 1961 Volume 2
Author: Henry Conn
Publisher: Totem Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-913893-10-1
Specification: 190mm x 245mm, 80pp, hardback
Price: £13.50
This is the promised second volume of Henry Conn’s black and white picture album showing the Scottish Bus Group’s Alexander’s fleet in the first months after its three operating areas were turned into separate companies in May 1961.
These were taken between late August and late November that year and show some of the new Alexander (Midland), Alexander (Fife) and Alexander (Northern) companies’ vehicles in Dunbartonshire, Stirlingshire, Fife, Perth and Dundee. Even if they had been photographed in colour, they would reveal neither the Ayres red of the Fife company nor the bright yellow of Alexander (Northern), as these new liveries had yet to appear.
As the apocryphal account of a David Coleman commentary might have put it, for viewers reading it in black and white, all were in the blue and cream that the Midland company retained or the dark red and cream of the Lawson’s subsidiary in Kirkintilloch and the city buses in Perth, which would also become blue.
The pictures, provided by Robin Fell, are presented chronologica…
