Yelloway 4643 DK leaving Rochdale for the last time - Jan 1973

January 1973 – Yelloway 4643 DK, new in 1963, seen leaving the Weir Street garage for the last time. The fleetname transfers on the side panels and the garter scroll on the boot doors had been sanded off and neatly repainted. Even when leaving the fleet the coaches looked tidy. It had been stripped of its destination blinds and the front and rear glass fleetname panels. The trade plate ‘046 DK’ was in position because the vehicle had not been taxed for the road hence the ‘DL’ on the windscreen to indicate ‘Delicenced’. Driver Geoff Shaw took the coach away – to the Alf Moseley dealership I believe and if so would he have travelled back on the day north service from Loughborough to Rochdale.