DSCF6886 Courtney Coaches YP12 NUO passing Huntley and Palmers, Reading - 6 Apr 2017

Thursday 6 April 2017 (1125) – Courtney Coaches YP12 NUO travelling along Kings Road in Reading when working the 0925 service 350 from Luton Airport to Bracknell. Two trips are worked on this service which leave Bracknell at 0330 and 1510 returning from Luton Airport at 0925 and 2200. An Irizar PB bodied Scania K360 new to Reliance (Griffin) of Gravesend in June 2012. (Taken on board Reading Buses 1114 (YN08 MMU) The red brick building bears the name of a once famous Reading business, Huntley and Palmers – the biscuit manufacturer. The company closed its Reading factory in the mid-1970s and the majority of the site, which was on the extreme left, was redeveloped. However, one of the older pieces of the former H&P property, the red brick building, remains and is in residential use still but still bearing the company name.