Oldham 418 waits departure time in Lever Street. This shot shows the bus in original condition (these buses were never lined out) with the pull-down ventilators which proved so troublesome in service. They were eventually replaced with conventional sliding units. Despite the newness of the bus, it is not carrying its original roof as it lost that one in a low bridge accident in Rochdale which was a consequence of a diversion due to another accident.

Photograph by courtesy of The Bus Archive/Roy Marshall