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The heat is slowly being turned up...

Much rarer than I thought. As the saying goes, every day is a school day. :)

Two body/chassis combinations come to mind. Seddon Pennnine 7/Alexander M-type. Six built: Eastern Scottish XS747-752 (MSF747-752P) which were also the final M-types. Leyland Tiger/Alexander T-type. Sixteen built: Central SMT LT1-5 (FGG601-605X), Eastern Scottish ZH311-316 (PSF311-316Y) and...

Two new E200MMCs in allover white, SK24XPO/P, have arrived at Berwick presumably for the 418 contract. Fleetnumbers are not yet known.

The 20 between Aldershot and Guildford had been branded as the Kite for a few years and when new route-branded ADL E200s were delivered for the service in early-2015, the opportunity was taken to relaunch it as the Kite. The E200s were then transferred to Peasmarsh a few years later for the...

The single-deck East Lancs-bodied Dominators were total abominations, even by East Lancs' own standards. The phrase "like the back end of a bus" was never more apt! 1712918140 There was also one Marshall Camair 80 body on a single-deck Ailsa chassis, Strathclyde AS1 (NHS782Y). It was built to...

An article that's been run and then deleted tells you all that you need to know about the standard of journalism these days - running a story that's based on assumptions without any facts. Journalists need to remember that two plus two does not equal five, which is exactly what's happened here.

Likewise, the bodies on the DMS class can be disqualified on several grounds - an adaptation of an existing body style for London, the body shape was the same regardless of bodybuilder, and there were only minor detail differences between the MCW and Park Royal versions. I think, to stop this...

The same article also appeared in yesterday's Edinburgh Evening News - whose publishers, National World, aren't exactly renowned for their accuracy.

Guilty as charged, m'lud. ;) 1712837247 Can't really class these as rare, especially the East Lancs R-type clones as South Yorkshire PTE asked for them to be built as such to standardise on spare body parts and East Lancs then subsequently built that body style for other operators. Plus, it...

Alexander (Midland) Tigers MPT116-119, A116-119GLS, come to mind. They had Alexander TC bodies with TE front and rear ends whilst their side windows were gasket-glazed rather than bonded. MPT120, A120GLS and the fifth bus in the batch, had all the TC trimmings. There were also the batch of...

Borderline rare, I'd have thought. Answering an earlier query, a check on Buslistsontheweb shows that Alexander bodied 179 Metrobuses. AD - Alexander (Midland). Total 3. RH - Merseyside (10), Strathclyde (15) and West Yorkshire PTE (10). Total 35. RL - Alexander (Midland)/Midland Scottish...

Both body styles combined numbered around 200 on Metrobus chassis, the RL being more numerous than the RH. Leicester bought five Metrobuses with Alexander RL bodies in 1983, the only such examples bought new by an English fleet (the others were bought by the SBG for Midland Scottish, Kelvin...

A bit of a misleading headline, unfortunately all too common in what passes for local journalism these days. It implies that JAA708 has been saved from scrap when in fact all that has happened is that FOKAB have persuaded the insurance company not to dispose of the vehicle and to return it to...

Have to agree, whilst the body was on one of the Olympian prototype chassis it was to all intents and purposes a GM Standard but built on an Olympian rather than an Atlantean. The front bumper was fitted to a number of buses around that time.