Thanks to several readers for pointing out that this Livery isn't dead yet - with 67 still out and about

Thanks to Richard Smith for the photos of 67 on the 72 yesterday!

The near demise of this short lived darker red front livery did get me thinking back to the last time Plymouth had a go at a darker livery with the depressing ‘Crimson Lake’ scheme in the late 1970s very early 1980s. (An excellent photo of MCO253H by Richard Godfray can be seen HERE)

I believe that the crimson lake livery appeared on more buses than the Stenning scheme and lasted longer in the fleet but can anyone confirm this? anyone know the numbers to receive each livery?