Subject: Western Welsh UC6566 (GKG 157D)
Chassis: AEC Reliance 2MU4RA
Body: Plaxton Panorama C40F
Location: Cardiff bus station
Date: c.1976

These Reliances were 31'-10" long and originally seated 38, being re-seated in Jan-1969. New in the ivory and royal blue livery they had window curtains which had been removed by the time of this view. This example was new as 157 but was renumbered UC266 in 1974 and became UC6566 the following year. It was withdrawn in 1976.

It is preparing for a trip to Liverpool on what had become the 871 some years previously (as shown by the National Express sticker at the top of the windscreen) but the destination blind dates from when it was the X71.

From an original negative in the David Beilby collection taken by Dave Thomas