Ailsa Volvo
TRA5005

West Midlands PTE

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 Manufacturer of model ABC
 Scale 1:76
 Fleet number 4787
 Registration number JOV 787P
 Route number 113
 Destination Streetly
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 Release details
 Quantities (if known) 2000
 Date released 1/01
 Availability General Release
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Shown on 21st April 1977, WMPTE Ailsa 4785 (JOV785P). These vehicles were very new then (though you wouldn't know this from the dirty vehicle in the photo), 4785 was allocated to Sutton Coldfield garage replacing obsolete ex-Midland Red types. It is seen leaving the cavernous and wholly uninviting Bull Ring bus station which had been used by WMPTE vehicles since the absorption of Midland Red routes and depots within the West Midlands area in 1974.

Photograph © Bob Belcher

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