THE SHOWBUS WEST OF ENGLAND BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Bristol Omnibus Company | Sold buses and coaches
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 Looking like cast offs from Brighton, Hove & District this trio of FLF Lodekkas were in the school contract fleet of Silcox Motors. On the right is ex Hants & Dorset 1537 (FLJ154D) numbered 19 by Silcox. The bus was with them from 1981 for about seven years, being exported to Italy in 1990 and last reported in 2015 in Rome converted for use as a party bus and named "Mister Bus"! The other pair are obviously ex Bristol with their T-shaped blind boxes and four track number display. On the left is 22 (BHU976C), former C7176 acquired in 1978 and sold to a youthful Stagecoach in Perth in 1986. The third FLF6G in the middle, 20, is former Cheltenham District 7075 (538OHU). Silcox acquired it shortly after C7176 and re-registered it ABX172A in 1987 six months before withdrawing it. It was exported to the USA, first seeing service with British Double Deckers in Denver, but by 1997 was with the Savannah College of Art & Design in Georgia.
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Another view of the Silcox trio.
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 This Alexander ALX400 bodied Volvo B7TL school bus belonging to Marshalls of Leighton Buzzard is seen in Bletchley Bus Station in May 2018. The bus was new as First Bristol as 9821 (W821PAE) in 2000.
Picture ref C526 |
 This Plaxton Panther bodied Volvo B12M was from a special 12.8m batch for the National Express London - Bristol service. The extra length was to allow wheelchair access via lift throug a door fitted just ahead of the rear axle. New as 2570 (WV02EUP) the coach is seen arriving at the Hertfordshire County Showground for SHOWBUS 2019 with new owner, Panther Travel, with registration AB02PAN.
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 At the Dewbury Bus Rally in July 2018 was former ECW bodied Bristol LH6L 455 (AFB586V). The bus lasted barely two years before passing to Hants & Dorset as 3850 then being billeted to the split off Hampshire Bus, then bouncing on to Solent Blue Line becoming 217. It next appeared as Teeside Motor Services numbered 1973 in 1990. By 1997 it was a driver trainer with East Yorkshire. Its revenue earning years over it became a mobile caravan in 2009 and was due to be converted into a car transporter for a Jaguar XJS in 2012. However it was saved for preservation and by 2021 repained in Teeside Motors blue and white!
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