Clydeside Scottish
Omnibuses Ltd.

After GCS 50V was sold by Clydeside she moved north having been purchased by Oban and Disrtict, was quickly repainted into Oban And District Blue & Cream livery and settled down to work from Oban depot. Oban and District was taken over by West Coast Motors and vehicles soon started to loose the Distictive Blue & Cream livery for West Coast Motors livery although for a while many vehicles still carried Oban and District fleetnames. I had been searching everywhere for photographs of GCS 50V in Oban & District livery, always finding it was another Leopard in the picture but never mine! I knew she had carried Blue & Cream since I found traces of paint when restoration back to Clydeside livery was being carried out. I had given up all hope of finding any photographs of her in this livery when out of the blue! I received an email from a fellow train driver who had been route learning recently with me, he mentioned he had a couple of photos taken in Oban of GCS 50V and would I like them, finally I had pictures of her in Blue & Cream.  Many thanks to Andy McLelland for supplying these rare photographs and allowing me to use them on my site. She operated for Oban and District / West Coast Motors from August 1997 until I purchased her in May 2007.

After years of searching finally, photographs of GCS 50V in Oban and District, Blue & Cream livery. Photos Copyright Andy McLelland.

GCS 50V is again seen wearing Oban & District blue and cream livery at the companies Oban depot. Photograph copyright David Wright.