Subject: Creamline DAU 444C
Type: Leyland Atlantean PDR1/2/Metro-Cammell H44/33F
Location: Tonmawr depot
Date: c.Apr-1979

New as Nottingham City Transport 444 in 1965, this was the last of the batch of twenty-two such vehicles. Whilst many of the buses delivered in the mid-sixties were rebuilt to dual-door configuration, these remained unchanged.

The bus to the right was new in 1955 as South Wales 447 (MCY 407) and was an AEC Regent V MD3RV with Weymann H33/26R body, later fitted with platform doors. It became one of the first routine withdrawals of a Regent V by any major operator when the whole batch of ten was sold in 1966. It passed to Whippet, Hilton in 1967 and in the following year it moved to Holder, Charlton-on-Otmoor, in whose livery it is seen. It seems to have been kept at the Creamline depot for some time in its early days in preservation.

From an original slide in the David Beilby collection, photographer unknown