8.VCS413.
The half-cab double-deckers converted were only used on school contracts, to allow inspection of the scholars’ passes. Western Scottish adapted three 12-year-old Albion Lowlanders VCS413/26/7 in August 1976, fitting sliding windows behind the driver, reversing lights and mirrors and a periscope. VCS413 shows no external evidence of this when photographed outside its depot in Penpont in rural Dumfriesshire. The other two were based in Stranraer for school contracts there, but all were replaced within a year by Daimler Fleetlines. Scottish Omnibuses, however, converted two Bristol Lodekka FLF6Gs YWS876 and CSG46S in a similar manner to the Alexander Leyland PS1s, intending to use them on routine service work, and the former was loaned to Cumberland Motor Services. However, they were only used at the rural depot in Peebles on school contracts, and both were reallocated in August 1976, when the depot went fully OMO operational. YWS876 was photographed at the depot in May 1974.”
