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Lex Commercials converts ex-Walsall buses
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Renowned for producing buses or rolleybuses of special design, Walsall 7orporation Transport standardized for ome years on short Daimler Fleetline ouble-deckers, built to operate on ifficult routes.
The chassis front overhang was reduced nd the entrance was located immediately ehind the front axle, the Northern ounties-bodied buses seating 70 passeners within an overall length of 27ft 6in. ater models were built with a squared-up .ont and accommodated a single-width itrance ahead of the axle for use on -m-o services.
Now absorbed in the West Midlands TE, 24 of the earlier buses have been todified for one-man operation by Lex ornmercials (Stour Valley) Ltd, Park oad, Halesowen, under the direction of Ir R, Edgley Cox, the Executive's chief igineer, who was responsible for the -iginal design when g,m. of the Walsall' -idertaking.
This conversion is in line with West lidland PTE's policy to convert all its rvices to one-man operation, and the construction is shown in the adjoining totographs.
1; The rounded frontal appearance is notable in this photograph of a bus immediately before stripping-down the front end.