The Littleborough and Saddleworth Liberal Democrats bought this former Tyne and Wear Metropolitan without realising that it would not be doing their green credentials any good at all due to its voracious appetite for diesel! I remember these new to Tyne and Wear and thought they looked rather attractive in the yellow and cream livery of that fleet. On 2nd June 1991 OTN 444R is rather provocatively supporting a party rally immediately opposite Greenfield Conservative Club. That fact did not escape the letter-writers to the Oldham Evening Chronicle.