Walsall's bus fleet was always idiosyncratic, reflecting
particularly the ideas of their General Managers. A bus fleet that
not only served the town's many housing estates, its large fleet
was used extensively on works and colliery services fa beyond
Walsall's boundaries. Financial constraints meant that buses were
often built to the most basic specification and classes of buses
rarely exceeded a dozen or so vehicles. Even the original two-tone
blue livery was pared down to an all-over light blue with a thin
relief of a yellow band. Yet for all its faults it was always a
fascinating bus fleet with the wartime fleet in particular being
subjected to an extensive rebodying programme usually involving
pre-war bodies being mounted on wartime chassis. Unusually for a
West Midlands operator, the pre-war fleet was nearly all
manufactured by Dennis, while during the Second World War and
immediately afterwards Guy Arabs were either allocated or bought.
Then came Ronald Edgley Cox and nothing was ever the same again
with buses built to almost Pullman standard, an actual class of
buses given the nickname of 'jumping jacks', a large number of very
short Daimler Fleetlines as well as probably one of the largest
double-deckers ever operated in the UK, which proved to be both a
swan song and a white elephant.
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