NEW COLOURS FOR GREY-GREEN?
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THREE Bedford SB coaches with 41-seat Duple Bella Vega bodies delivered this week to George Ewer and Co. Ltd. are experimentally painted in a new livery which might well be adopted throughout the Ewer Group. Instead of the prominent colours being those of the respective companies, cream i the main colour with a broad grey band across the lower panels. This colour scheme would apply to vehicles of all the group companies, the distinguishing colour for each company being displayed on the front roof canopy and the rear boot doors. For example, the front canopy and boot doors of the Grey-Green coach illustrated are pale green.
An attractive new red moquette—John Holdsworth's No. 17277/BOA—is employed on the standard Duple GA. 220 seats, with red p.v.c. reliefs, piped grey. The front screens are divided, which is now an option on the majority "of bodies in the Duple range, and the specification includes roof quarter lights, an additional side locker to the offside and full width mudflap at the rear. Interior equipment includes Radiomobile public address equipment, whilst the front destination indicator is special to Grey-Green and incorporates twin-geared indicators.
The new coaches are the first of a fleet of 25 similar vehicles which are to be delivered to the group. The group includes Ardley Bros. Coaches Ltd., Fallowfield and Britain Ltd., Orange Luxury Coaches Ltd. and Battons Coaches Ltd.