Silcox E196 ODE at Saundersfoot - 25 Jul 2007

Wednesday 25 July 2007 – Silcox Motor Coach Company 226 (E194 ODE) in Milford Street, Saudersfoot working as it worked service 353 to Pembroke Dock. Plaxton Derwent bodied Leyland Tiger new to the Ministry of Defence in September 1987 and acquired by Silcox in 1997. The May 2000 issue of the British Bus Publishing ‘Welsh Bus Handbook’ tells that a number of former MoD buses acquired by Silcox came in left hand drive layout and were converted by the company. This old established company ceased trading in 2016, the Western Telegraph newspaper said it had traded for 134 years.