Subject: Rhondda 78 (TG 2119)
Chassis: Dennis Lance II
Body: Metro-Cammell H28/20R
Location: unknown
Date: 1931

This solitary Dennis Lance was one of two double-deckers to join the Rhondda fleet in 1931 - the only such vehicles until the tram replacement fleet started to arrive in 1933.

It was identical to the twenty-five Dennis Lances built for London General in 1931 and, like them, because the body was designed for the AEC Regent with a wheelbase about a foot shorter it was set back and had a narrower platform.

It wasn't used after 1939 but was only finally withdrawn in 1946 follwoing which the body was scrapped and the chassis used by Longwell Green as a lorry. It still outlasted the London examples which were withdrawn in 1937.

It is suspected the location is Barry Island and this bus may have worked the pre-war service from Pontypridd that ran here in the summer.

Photograph by courtesy of The Bus Archive/Roy Marshall