Subject: Primrose Valley 152 (GTV 57D)
Chassis: AEC Reliance 2U3RA
Body: Plaxton Panorama C51F
Location: Oldham, Union Street
Date: c.1974

This coach was new to Skill’s of Nottingham as their 57. I have no date for this image but it is probable that it is working for Primrose Valley as they regularly supplied vehicles for the Scarborough/Filey services and this is at the right time for a journey back from the East Coast.

It certainly carries a Primrose Valley flag over the windscreen (it doesn’t refer to the plastic!) and their fleet number 152. The complication is that after they sold it in 1974 it passed to Senior of Shaw and therefore could still be seen regularly in Oldham.

It is passing the new Oldham Evening Chronicle offices which had only just been opened.

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