Subject: National Welsh UD2572 (XBO 521K)
Chassis: Leyland Leopard PSU3B/4R
Body: Marshall DP47F
Location: Maindy, North Road
Date: c.1980

UD 2572 was the first of the last batch of BET-era buses to join the Western Welsh fleet - subsequent single-deckers were very much influenced by NBC policy with a predominance of Leyland Nationals.

This vehicle was new in Mar-1972 as 1521, with the 1521-1530 batch of vehicles being the first and last dual-purpose single-deckers to be delivered in the red and ivory livery. As with many dual-purpose vehicles (in particular) in the fleet it went through various renumberings becoming UD172 in Aug-1974 and then UD2572 in Oct-1975. It would later become UD1295 in the Jan-1983 reumbering.

UD2572 is on the outskirts of Cardiff city centre with the approaches to the roundabout at Gabalfa visible in the distance.

From an original negative in the David Beilby collection taken by Robert Edworthy