Today a trip back featuring the two routes that will still exist tomorrow but now of course with different numbers the 7 will become the 15A and the 11 becomes the 6A, leaving just the 4/6/8/9 as the only single digit numbers in use! The first features my favourite AEC combination the AEC Regent V with Massey body, taken from the top of Warwick Road we see one of the earliest ones in 37 LDX 37 heading back into Town with the wrong blinds on the 11 when it used to terminate at Selkirk Road, picture taken 1970. Below we see IBT cream and green liveried Leyland Atlantean/Roe 8 MRT 8P, outside what is now residential flats but back then was Mc Namara Motors car showroom heading back from Foxhall Road which on return became the 7 to Chantry.
While the number 7 still lives on well sort of First Ipswich's new Felixstowe express service is numbered X7 obviously someone forget to programme the LED blinds, as it left for Felixstowe with 7 Town Centre!
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