Wetmore Road for those who don’t know is where the fleet of ‘Midland Classic of Burton’ (MC) is garaged.
Over the weekend of 28/29th August 2021 ‘MC’ held a Heritage Weekend to celebrate two anniversaries.
On the Saturday to celebrate 15 years of ‘MC’ operating in Burton.
On the Sunday to celebrate the 95th. anniversary of John Stevenson setting up in business to run buses between Burton and Uttoxeter via Tutbury.
A route that ‘MC’ still operates today.
I have referred to ‘Stevenson’s’ a number of times in my blogs over the years.
Usually in connection with ‘Midland Classic’ the current major operator in ‘BoT’ who own a number of buses that carry ‘Stevenson’s’ livery.
This legendary operator dating back to the 1920’s operated in Staffordshire and eventually into what is now the West Midlands as far south as Birmingham.
Always innovative, they operated a fleet which was made up of a wide variety of vehicles from a wide variety of sources.
At the height of operations the fleet stood at over 250 buses.
This included in later years.
Bristol VR’s with Eastern Coach Works coach seated bodies working a commuter service into the centre of Birmingham.
Known originally as ‘Stevenson’s of Spath. (the village that was the companies base).
Then ‘Stevenson’s of Burton & Uttoxeter until becoming part of ‘ARRIVA via ‘British Bus’ in 1994.
KLB 908 ‘Stevenson’s’ No. 11.
Leyland 6RT / Leyland /1
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘London Transport’ as No. RTW 178.
Part of the massive family of RT buses in London.
Whilst most RT’s were 7 feet six inches wide this particular bus (and others of its class) were built to a width of 8 feet. Hence RTW - Wide.
KLB 908 ‘Stevenson’s’ No. 11.
Leyland 6RT / Leyland /2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
KLB 908 ‘Stevenson’s’ No. 11.
Leyland 6RT / Leyland /3
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
F96 PRE ‘Stevensons Bus Services No. 96.
Leyland Olympian / Alexander RL
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
In service with ‘Stevensons’ at the time of the ‘ARRIVA’ takeover, it appeared in full ‘ARRIVA’ livery at one stage.
It spent some time with ‘transdev’ before coming back in 2016 to ‘midland classic’ (mc).
I posted a 4 image blog on 04/10/2016 showing the livery in which it returned to ‘mc’ when it was working a contract service into Derby.
F97 PRE ‘Stevensons Bus Services No. 97.
Leyland Olympian / Alexander RL
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
TOJ 592S ‘Stevensons Bus Services’ No. 80.
MCW Metrobus DR101/2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘MCW’ as a demonstrator.
MCW = ‘Metro-Cammell Weymann’.
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