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CARDIFF 203 (CKG 193) Chassis: AEC 664T (3 axle) |
BRIEF HISTORY
All 10 vehicles entered service in a drab wartime grey livery. However, in 1946 at least four of these vehicles, including 203, were repainted in a streamlined crimson lake and cream livery. Others remained in grey until by 1949/50 all ten vehicles had all been repainted in standard motorbus livery.
Whilst some of these vehicles continued in service until 1965, 203 was withdrawn in December 1962 whereupon she was presented to the Reading Transport Society and stored in Reading. Later in the 1960s 203 transferred into private ownership and remained so until the early 1990s when she was brought back into the care of the BTS once more.
203 was repainted in Cardiffs original grey livery in the early 1990s and has operated at both the Black Country Museum and Sandtoft in recent years although she is currently out of service due to a defective motor and awaiting some attention to the bodywork.
Plans are now afoot to restore 203 into the streamlined livery it carried in the late 1940s. This work will be undertaken in memory of the late BTS Chairman, Mike Dare and also the late Geoff Griffiths, a Welshman who carried out much electrical work for a number of trolleybus preservation societies. See the Cardiff 203 Appeal Page for more details.