Strathclyde Buses GCT Fleet 1993 Onwards

28th June 2006

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During the summer of 1993, Strathclyde Buses launched a new low cost unit, registered to an "off the shelf" company called Comlaw No 313 Ltd and trading as GCT. The unit was registered to an address on Glasgow's Great Western Road which was actually the address of Knightswood bus depot.

Livery was green, yellow and black and the fleet was initially made up of Atlanteans, Olympians and Metroriders transfered in from the main SBL fleet. The Atlanteans involved included the seven former Nottingham Atlanteans purchased the previous year along with all the acquired ex Busways fleet plus some homegrown examples. A variety of services were operated in the short life of the unit, generally the more marginal routes, tendered services or on competitive corridors. Towards the end of the GCT era, after First Group had purchased SB Holdings, the GCT fleetname name was used on a few vehicles in the new style, with vehicles painted in the new Glasgow red livery.

These slides are taken on a variety of 100 and 200 ASA slide films and scanned with a Nikon Coolscan V ED film scanner.

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