SOME MORE WAKES PICTURES

A few glimpses of their vehicles from the camera of Peter Brown




This is EYB 779, forlorn and festering in retirement at the back of the Wincanton depot in 1963.
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Damaged Dennis Lancet / Duple KYB 576 at the same location, and again it's 1963.  It was new to Wakes in December 1948.
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TYD 888, an AEC Reliance / Duple, on the Yeovil - Shepton service at Castle Cary in 1963.  It was new to Wakes in May 1955.

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Bedford OB MYA 525 (its twin was MYA 526) at Castle Cary, these pictures were all taken in 1963.  MYA 525 was in the Wakes fleet from 1950 to 1971, a Duple-bodied 27 seater.
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Peter Brown adds:
My recollections of Wakes Coaches are sketchier than I thought but these are they: there were two Duple-bodied Bedfords, one was 13 BYB and the other was (I think) 813 BYC. YRV 301, a newer Bedford, was painted in a darker blue than the traditional livery; the green and cream half cab coach parked at Sparkford for years was RMX 748.

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