When Stroud's buses were green (and even red)
Stroud's Buses
The Bristol K
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The story of the Bristol K type at Stroud takes us back to the days before Bristol Tramways took over in the town.
It was the Western National Omnibus Company which, as the main provider of passenger services, began operating the Bristol K chassis, from the 1930s. Such vehicles were capable of a maximum seating capacity of 56.
During the early years of the war and immediately afterwards, Western National at Stroud received some new vehicles, the last of which was withdrawn in 1966, 16 years after the Bristol operating company took over from Western National. Bristol tramways (later becoming Bristol Omnibus) continued using Ks at Stroud and by 1966, 30 Bristol registered vehicles had been used in the town.
It was The Track (service 421, Chalford-Stroud-Stonehouse) which tended to see the Ks, even towards the end of their time.
 Bristol K type operates The Track again! Authentic in every particular save that it should read route number "221" is 353, an ex-Western National Bristol K with ECW body, similar to the 11 inherited by Bristol Tramways upon the take-over of Western National's Stroud garage in 1950 |
It is also worthy of note that Stroud was the first BOC depot to lose its entire allocation of FLFs.