Classic Bus Trip to the Clyde Coast

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Was this a special booking or is the tour available on a regular basis.

They run about half a dozen trips a year, available to members. All the trips are different but this one was of particular interest to me as it made use of a Western SMT bus and followed some of their old routes. The tour covered the area where I was born and brought up and used a bus of a type and from a bus company which I travelled on regularly when I was younger, so I made a special point of going on this trip despite having to get up early to do the two hour car drive to Glasgow to join the tour. The last buses of this type were withdrawn from service by the company in 1978 and the Western Scottish Motor Traction Company was itself later taken over by Stagecoach, bringing about the disappearance of this classic company livery from the everyday scene.