The larger bus operators, whether municipal or company owned, have
traditionally trained their own new drivers. Normally older
vehicles from the fleet were retained and adapted for training,
adorned with 'L' plates. In earlier days they would usually just
retain fleet livery. Sometimes they might receive a separate
livery, to warn other road users. When the National Bus Company
introduced corporate liveries of red or green for its fleets, many
of their constituent companies used yellow for their training and
service vehicles. Then, as recruitment became more difficult from
around the 1980s, colourful liveries with invitational recruitment
slogans tended to appear and this has continued since. Rather
surprisingly, companies often bought in buses for training from
other companies rather than converting their own, and these might
be types not otherwise represented in their fleet. This book looks
at a variety of training vehicles from around the country over the
last fifty years, including examples that have survived into
preservation.
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