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Bristol VR, Bristol LH and Leyland Olympian

Mon, 09/08/2010 - 8:32pm — editor
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3 of our vehicles at Penzance on the Saturday before the Running Day
Picture Date: 
17 Apr 2010

Bristol VRBristol VR was Bristol's rear-engined bus chassis, designed as a competitor to the Leyland Atlantean and Daimler Fleetline. 1003(VDV 141S), Bristol LHBristol Commercial Vehicles Light Horizontal engined 716(MUO 328F) and 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 OlympianLeyland Olympian was a double-decker bus built by British Leyland/Leyland Bus in the United Kingdom from 1980 to 1993. 34754(A 754 VAF) cleaned and ready to go on the Saturday prior to the Penzance Running Day on Sunday.  

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A754 VAF | Leyland Olympian | Fleet No. 34754 (ex 1807/1754)

Wed, 18/11/2009 - 9:58am — webmaster
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Registration: 
A754 VAF
Fleet No.: 
34754
Fleet No.: 
1807
Fleet No.: 
1754
Date acquired: 
Thu, 01/10/2009

We have now successfully acquired from First Devon & Cornwall, former Western National 'Bristol' 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 OlympianLeyland Olympian was a double-decker bus built by British Leyland/Leyland Bus in the United Kingdom from 1980 to 1993., A754 VAF in Barbie 2 livery and displaying fleet number 34754.

This represents a very important 'save' for the CBPG as it is the last vehicle from the initial batch of 8 first introduced in Plymouth in November 1983 to come out of service in Cornwall. Unfortunately sister vehicles, 34751/2/5 (A751/2/5 VAF) have not been so lucky and have been scrapped. Read more

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