Cornwall Bus Preservation Society

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Picture Date: 

24 Oct 2009

LeylandLeyland Bus was a British bus manufacturer. It emerged from the Rover Group (formerly British Leyland) as a management buyout of the bus business. It was subsequently acquired by Volvo Buses in 1988 and the name finally disappeared in 1993 OlympianModels of double decker bus built by Leyland and Volvo: * Leyland Olympian * Volvo Olympian * Volvo Olympian (low-floor), also known as Volvo B9TL  34754(A754 VAF) pictured when we collected her from First's St Austell depotSt Austell last year (2009).

The WHOTTThe West Country Historic Omnibus & Transport Trust vision is to establish a museum devoted to the history and development of commercial and public road transport in the region.  We are rigorously searching for a site that offers the best potential and is easily accessible.  Meanwhile our LeylandLeyland Bus was a British bus manufacturer. It emerged from the Rover Group (formerly British Leyland) as a management buyout of the bus business. It was subsequently acquired by Volvo Buses in 1988 and the name finally disappeared in 1993 Panther saloon acts as our mobile museum, offering a wide range of information about the WHOTT as an organisation, as well as staging exhibitions.  The Trust has eighteen vehicles in its care, covering a period 1938 to 1994, including tradition Read more

The CBPG would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. We are in the process of developing a new web site which we hope to have up and running shortly.

In the mean time in these cold winter days, we thought we would include some more pictures of our Bristol VRBristol VR was Bristol's rear-engined bus chassis, designed as a competitor to the Leyland Atlantean and Daimler Fleetline. 1003(VDV 141S) and Mercedes VarioMercedes-Benz Vario (model designation W670) is a heavy van manufactured by Mercedes-Benz 52529(S529 RWP) at the Kingsbridge Running Day where both vehicles proved to be very popular and reminds all of us of the warmer days of last September. Read more

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Picture Date: 

19 Sep 2009

1003 - Bristol VRBristol VR was Bristol's rear-engined bus chassis, designed as a competitor to the Leyland Atlantean and Daimler Fleetline. 1003(VDV 141S) - on service 429 to Hope Cove flanked by preserved 1961 Bristol SUL 336 EDV and First Devon & Cornwall's Dennis Trident which was in normal service on the day