Subject: Caerphilly UDC 42 (HTX 442) and Rhondda 256 (JTG 947)
Chassis: Guy Arab III 6LW and AEC Regent III 9612E
Body: Willowbrook L27/28R and Weymann H30/26R
Location: Pontypridd, Sardis Road
Date: mid-1950s

The service to Caerphilly from Pontypridd once started in Sardis Road and as a consequence although Caerphilly operated two services into Pontypridd they never met in that town.

Caerphilly’s Willowbrook-bodied Guy 42 is leaving for its home town and passing Rhondda Regent 256. This was from the last batch of preselector gearbox Regents bought by Rhondda and also their last batch of double-deckers before they adopted the new legal width of eight feet.

Just visible behind is one of Western Welsh’s Willowbrook-bodied Crossley SD42/7s.

Photograph from the David Beilby collection