'IN answer to your query in Looking Back on August 5 regarding blue buses running on the No 82 Leigh-Bolton route, your reader Bill Leadbeater is indeed, correct; there was a fleet of blue buses on that service in the late 1950s,' writes S. O'Hara, of Crompton Street, Farnworth.

You may recall that I printed similar answers last Saturday. Mr O'Hara continues: 'In, 1958, having passed the 11 plus exam, I started attending Bolton Technical School, which occupied the top floor of the college on Manchester Road. At the time I was living in Thomas Rostron Street, off Derby Street, and regularly caught the blue No 82 to Howell Croft bus station.

'I distinctly remember their resplendent livery, complete with blue leather and upholstered seats. To the best of my knowledge, they must have been Leigh Corporation buses. Incidentally, the fare, if I remember correctly, was 1d, and if you retained your ticket when alighting at the junior library entrance in Ashburner Street, you could walk through the arcade on to Newport Street, board any bus going that way and travel for free to Trinity Street railway station.'

And yet another letter came from Mr David R. Farnworth, of Penn Street, Horwich, who agrees with all the information printed so far, but adds that according to a 1963 timetable, the L:eigh Corporatiln bus operated about every hour, while the others were LUT operated, so the blue buses were outnumbered one to four by the LUT.

'However, the initial blue buses were rear-entranced, since Leigh Corporation did not acquire any front entranced double-deckers until 1964 (front entranced single-deckers had been around for a good while). Presumably these operated on the 82 route at times.'