This is another image inspired by one of Michael Windle’s excellent drawings (link attached). It depicts J362 YMX, one of 48 Leyland Lynx MkIIs purchased by the Caldaire Group for its West Riding and Yorkshire Woollen fleets in the early 1990s, which passed with the Caldaire business to Arriva Yorkshire in the late 1990s. The majority of the MkIIs received a major refurbishment, which included a new interior with replacement seating and repainted handrails; and exterior re-panelling that eliminated the previous rubber skirts and square wheel arches. The refurbished examples lasted in service until 2005, with two surviving to preservation. Thanks again to Michael Windle for the background information (14-Apr-24).
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The Caldaire Group standardised on the Leyland Lynx, becoming the second largest user of the type (after West Midland Travel) with 131 new and second-hand MkI and Mklls in its Yorkshire Woollen and West Riding fleets (plus additional MkIs in its United Automobile Services and Tees & District fleets). The Yorkshire Woollen and West Riding Lynxes passed with the Caldaire business to Arriva Yorkshire in the late 1990s, with the MkIIs receiving a major overhaul to prolong their operational life to the mid-2000s (14-Apr-24).
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Black Prince operated a cut-down ex-Ribble Leyland PD2 as a towing vehicle. This fictional Leyland Constructor, which has been updated with a Leyland-DAF 60 grille panel, would have provided a heavy lift facility as well as more comprehensive breakdown assistance. Whereas the PD2 was predominately dark red with yellow bands, the Constructor has been outshopped in a predominately yellow livery with dark red skirt. The beauty of Black Prince’s livery was that there was no standard style of application (13-Apr-24).
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After its love affair with the Volvo Ailsa, Black Prince turned to Scania for its next generation of double-deckers. Many came from Newport Transport - the biggest UK operator of the type - but this fictional example is one of two that were new to Tyne & Wear PTE in 1982. Many of Black Prince’s Scanias received a blue and cream livery but it is convenient for me to finish this one in red and yellow. This image is based JFT 413X, which is preserved in original Tyne & Wear livery (13-Apr-24).
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This is the same bus previously featured in Yorkshire Rider livery. The assumption here is that at least one of latter’s (fictional) trial batch of Mercedes-Benz 0405Gs was acquired by Black Prince Coaches for contract work and occasional appearances on the operator’s stage carriage services. Black Prince did, of course, operate several rigid 0405s with locally-built Optare Prima bodies (12-Apr-24).
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