The most attractive Midland Red buses were the dual-purpose buses and the coaches which wore black roofs. A still new S21 5869 at Worcester was one of the last as the black was shortly to be raplaced by a far more mundane dark red colour Big changes were afoot anyway as by 1968 BMMO (Birmingham & Midland Omnibus) double-deck manufacture had ended and within a year so would the single-decker too..