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AN AEC Reliance 470 with Plaxton Highway 47-seat body recently placed into service with Bond Brothers of Willington, Co. Durham.
The Highway body design originated with operators in the northeast of England and is one of the very few remaining single-deck bus body styles produced in this country which is not based on jigs to the design of the British Electric Traction Co. Ltd. It has remained popular with operators in this area, despite its lack of wrap-round windscreens or rear windows. The number of small windows along the side of the body also give the design a slightly "fussy" appearance, although it is, otherwise, a well-proportioned body.
Other examples of Highway bodies to enter service in the northeast this year are as follows: Gillett Bros., Cluartington Hill, one 55-seat bus and one 51-seat dual-purpose body; and OK Motor Services. Bishop Auckland, one 51-seat dual-purpose body, all on Reliance chassis.
Meanwhile, even Plaxton's have now started producing bus bodies to BET outline, early examples being 1It/ on the new Daimler Roadliner chassis for West Riding Automobile Co. Ltd. described and illustrated in COMMERCIAL MOTOR last week. F. K. M.