First Aberdeen - Liveries

Liveries

Aberdeen Corporation employed a dark green and white livery, later becoming pea-green and cream

Council owned GRT changed this livery, by removing the upper green band, replacing it with a thinner orange band, and 'Grampian' fleetnames and a council crest. On being sold to its employees, GRT used a scheme of a larger area of cream base colour, supplemented by a two-tone green stripe pattern. The fleet name was still 'Grampian', but with a thistle emblem over the 'i'.

The cream base and stripe layout would go on to become a corporate livery for the GRT Group, albeit with different colours for the stripes. The First Grampian livery consisted of the GRT livery, with the fleetname changed to the FirstBus corporate style with the stylised f symbol. Some new buses were introduced with a modified Gold Standard version of the green livery.

First Grampian livery persisted until 1998. On renaming to First Aberdeen, corporate First white and pink livery was introduced, but it took a number of years before it was used on all buses.

In June 2012 First began repainting the cities fleet into the new livery of lilac and purple. As of 14 September 2012, 16 buses have been repainted into the new livery.