Prestige Series No.43 Colwyn Bay

Colwyn Bay in North Wales ran Britain’s smallest municipal operation, but one with plenty of interest. No other municipality housed its vehicles with a mechanical elephant, and the 'runabouts’ as they were called for many years bumped happily along the Promenade carrying visitors to the coast. In later years a determined but unsuccessful attempt was made to institute conventional services, and operations ceased in 1985. The story has never been told before and Michael Yelton has consulted the minutes of the Council committees to set out this full picture.