THE SHOWBUS SOUTH WEST ENGLAND BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Plymouth Citybus | Leyland Atlanteans
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In 1979 Plymouth City Transport celebrated its centenary with this Park Royal Atlantean painted in a special dark red and cream livery. It is seen here having journeyed all the way from Plymouth to the Hillingdon Showbus Rally that year.
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Another view of the centennial Atlantean at SHOWBUS 79.
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Here it is in full colour on display in the Showground, 79 (GDR204N).
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 This was a typical site at Milehouse depot outside peak periods. Long lines of parked up Atlanteans seen around 1980. This line is mostly Park Royal bodied examples with the peaked roof domes and in the "added cream" livery. Next to the first example is an MCW "Mancunian" style and the sixth Park Royal Atlantean is in the then new, but short lived, maroon and cream livery.
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 Facing the predominantly Park Royal line was a line of older MCW bodied Atlanteans.
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 This line up shows five Leyland Atlantean AN68 buses with NBC style bodywork. The older buses, 86 (GDR211N) and 89 (GDR214N) have bodies by Park Royal. Then there are Roe bodied 131 (STK131T), seen in an advertising livery for Phoenix Assurance, and 120 (OCO120S) and probably the unidentified identically liveried bus alongside.
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 A quartet of Atlaneans at Milehouse. From left to right we have 203 (DDR203D), one of the last batch of old style MCW bodies in the maroon livery, matching it is MCW Mancunian 209 (FJY909E), then sister bus 214 (FJY914E) in its original colours. Finally we have Roe bodied AN68 98 (LTK98R) advertising Plymouth Sound Radio and for some reason christened the Earl of Morley with no obvious connection to the radio station.
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 This quartet comprises three Atlanteans - two early Park Royals and an original MCW - but also MCW bodied Leyland Titan PD2 358 (MCO658) of 1956 and converted to open top as early as 1961.
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 In Bretonside Bus Station looking a bit shabby is MCW bodied Atlantean 197 (DDR197C) alongside Western National ECW bodied Bedford VAM5 703 (KDV133F).
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 Another Western National Bedford VAM5 705 (KDV135F) passes Park Royal bodied Atlantean 239 (JJY639G) on Royal Parade.
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 Heading into the city is NBC-style Park Royal bodied Atlantean AN68 86 (GDR211N).
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Being overtaken on Royal Parade by a Western National Bristol FLF Lodekka is earlier Park Royal bodied Atlantean 9 (NDR509J).
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 Preserved Roe bodied AN68 131 (STK131T), named Henry Winstanley, is seen at the West of England Transport Collection at Winkleigh in August 2013.
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 From 1980 Plymouth switched its allegiance to East Lancs. This is AN68 167 (TTC167X) seen near The Hoe when new in 1981.
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 Sister vehicle 169 (TTT169X) is seen outside Milehouse depot.
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Seen atop Bretonside Bus Station is 169 again in a later livery. It is resting after a spell in service, and was one of the few doubledeckers left in the fleet back in the nineties.
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Another vehicle from the same batch in service on Royal Parade in October 1999.
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This secondhand Northern Counties bodied Atlantean, 172 (SND468X) came from GM Buses in Manchester where it was 8468. As a contract vehicle the deep blue livery is likely designed to distinguish it from servce buses.
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