Ellen Smith (Rossendale Transport) coaches - 16 Apr 1995 (260-36)

Easter Sunday 16 April 1995 – Rossendale Transport bought the old family business of Rochdale based Ellen Smith (Tours) Limited in 1991 and continued to use the well respected name. Three Ellen Smith liveried coaches seen at the Corporation Road yard in Rochdale. Left to right: 382 (AAL 468A), a Plaxton Paramount III 3200 bodied Leyland Leopard. The chassis was new to National Welsh in June 1980 registered BUH 225V (fleet number UC8019) with a Plaxton Supreme IV bodywork. It was re-bodied in June 1988. 314 (NIW 6514), a Plaxton Supreme bodied Leyland Leopard new to National Travel South West in March 1980 registered KAD 356V; and Plaxton Supreme IV bodied Leyland Leopard LFS 487T which was new to Ellen Smith in 1979 and became Rossendale 308. The Rossendale Transport yard is on the site where the Standard Mill once stood, one of the many cotton mills that existed in Rochdale. It was built in 1889 and had about five or six floors.