Forty years ago, in June 1974, 1 became chief engineer of Brighton Borough Transport with responsibility for the bus, commercial vehicle and plant fleets, and with two other senior council officers also the safety of fairgrounds both static and visiting. Brighton's bus fleet was all Leyland, a new experience for me. There was a mixture of Titan PD2s and PD3s, Panther Cubs and three batches of Atlanteans, including the AN68/1R. I had been the engineering assistant to the chief engineer at Reading Transport for the previous two years, where that municipal undertaking's favoured double-decker was the lowheight Bristol VRT/LL2 with Northern Counties two-door body seating 76 or 77 plus 14 or 15 standees.
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