B1 (TMM 191)

New in September 1950

Chassis: Bedford OB 142620

Body: Duple Vista 52809

TMM 191 has led a very tortuous life. It started life working for British European Airways (hence its Middlesex registration) as fleet number 1125 and was used on the Liverpool Lime Street Station service to Liverpool Airport in 1950 along with 3 others. Then after life as a public service vehicle it became a farm bus, a store and then a mobile home before eventually moving back up north to join MTT’s fleet of Preserved Liverpool Buses.  When the Airport service was transferred to Liverpool Corporation in 1952, B1 plus the other three Bedford OBs were included with the sale becoming B1 to B4 in the Corporation's bus fleet and being garaged at Dingle depot.  In 1961 they were replaced by four Leyland Tigers which had been re-bodied by Metro-Cammell as one-and-a-half deck coaches, one of which, (XL171), is also in the care of the Merseyside Transport Trust.