Fleet Numbers

[Tony]

4590 was a very late survivor, It moved from Coventry Road to Washwood Heath on the closure of Coventry Road, and one of only two 45xx at WH to survive D-Day in 1986 along with 4599. It was a flying machine as well, my favourite WH bus for driving in 1986

[Isle of Stroma]

Addressing a few points:

4586n - 4590n which were located at sheepcote street in 1975 were they rehoused at lea hall on the 16th november 1975

Yes.

4590 was at Cleveland Rd, Wolverhampton
Are you sure re 4590? I have 4590-4599 at Coventry Road (CR)

4590 moved on to CV 11/76

The batch of 20, 4586-4605 started on former Midland Red services (possibly removing D9s) - does anyone know which garages they were split between

Initial allocations:
SH: 4586-90/5-7
MR: 4591-4/8-605

I think the confusion is that when Cov Road closed Cleveland Road adopted the CR garage code

Coventry Rd was always CV.

Cleveland Rd  was CL until 9/75, it's allocation was then combined with BS &  recoded CR.

[iansdavies]

i also remember 5 cotteridge based buses operating at lea hall in the early 1980s i think the numbers were 3795 - 3799 all had 2 door format any ideas

[Isle of Stroma]

i also remember 5 cotteridge based buses operating at lea hall in the early 1980s i think the numbers were 3795 - 3799 all had 2 door format any ideas

3781-3.

[don]

Addressing a few points:

4586n - 4590n which were located at sheepcote street in 1975 were they rehoused at lea hall on the 16th november 1975

Yes.

4590 was at Cleveland Rd, Wolverhampton
Are you sure re 4590? I have 4590-4599 at Coventry Road (CR)

4590 moved on to CV 11/76

The batch of 20, 4586-4605 started on former Midland Red services (possibly removing D9s) - does anyone know which garages they were split between

Initial allocations:
SH: 4586-90/5-7
MR: 4591-4/8-605

I think the confusion is that when Cov Road closed Cleveland Road adopted the CR garage code

Coventry Rd was always CV.

Cleveland Rd  was CL until 9/75, it's allocation was then combined with BS &  recoded CR.

Thanks for the clarification. One other point - you say 4590 moved to CV at 11/76 - was this on closure of Sheepcote St or was there an interim allocation?

[Isle of Stroma]

Thanks for the clarification. One other point - you say 4590 moved to CV at 11/76 - was this on closure of Sheepcote St or was there an interim allocation?

4590 went to LH along with 4586-9, as per my original reply.

[iansdavies]

did any ailsa volvo double deckers operate on the meadway in the 1970s ie 169 and 193 .

[midlandred2003]

From my memory the answer would be no.

[Steve3229vp]

they used to operate on the 195 and for a time the 99 which was the 195's replacement when Sutton Coldfield had a share of these routes as well as services 162 (later becoming 962) and 93, 94.