THE SHOWBUS WELSH BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Crosville NBC buses and coaches
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 Where this picture of Bristol SC4LK SC12 (782EFM) was taken is a bit of a mystery. From the destination blind, it appears to have been withdrawn by Crosville, though the bus is a real survivor. New in 1957 it ended its days with Crosville as a service vehicle as G612 having been renumbered SSG612 when only six months old. The maintenance bus was withdrawn in 1982, but reinstated and withdrawn again in 1986, passing briefly into the Crosville Wales fleet. It spent ten years with the Integrated Transport Group in South Yorkshire and has ended up in preservation.
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 Heading for Walgherton from Crewe on the K29 was this former ECW bodied Bristol MW6G coach. Like many bus companies Crosville cascaded its front line coaches to bus work in their later years. The coach door has not been modified to a folding version, though the coach seats have been replaced with bus seating.
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 Alongside a Plaxton Panorama Elite bodied Bedford YRQ, EAW360L, of Arthur Boulton, these days trading as Boultons of Shropshire is a later version of the Bristol MW/ECW coach combination converted for bus operation. The pair are in Oswestry and the MW is on the D74 to Crew Green.
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 Crosville coaching from a different era, when the National Bus Company block purchased a large number of Willowbrook bodied Leyland Leopards for its subsidiaries. Leopard ELL23 (DDM23X) was delivered as ELL526 (WTU526W) in 1981 it is seen at a motorway service area on a private hire. With an E prefix to the fleet number, rather than a C, the Leopard was seen as being dual purpose, though coach passengers were probably happy to see these vehicles rapidly cascaded to pure bus work. The bus joined Crosville Cymru and later received a red front for the Bws Gwynedd branding.
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 Crosville received some of the very first Leyland Nationals and the number plateless bus on the left is identified as such with its silver bumpers. Slightly newer SNL889 (RFM889M) alongside has the white bumpers. Both buses are at Rock Ferry depot in unrelieved all over green. Whilst SNL889 is in NBC apple green the earlier National was definitely delivered in a darker shade, but probably not Tilling Green.
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