Yelloway YDK 585 (Photo by Eric Fielding)

Mid 1960s - Hubert Allen cracks a bottle of champagne on the front wheel of YDK 585, as he ‘launches’ another new service. The destination blind shows ‘Torquay’ so I would imagine this was perhaps an additional and speeded up express variant of the ‘Devonian’ service. The coach was among the first batch of Harrington Cavalier coaches which were delivered in 1961 and were of the then permitted maximum length of 30 feet – from 1962 the maximum length of 36 feet was permitted.