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- 2009-07-12 23:54:39
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- 2009-07-12 23:49:16
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- 2009-07-12 23:46:27
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- 2009-07-12 23:38:59
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| Hits (today): | 6 |
| Hits (this week): | 24 |
| Hits (this month): | 24 |
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| Collections: | 8 |
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| 1 | Crosville's DOG114 KFM114Y (ON385) stands at Heswall depot, this was one of the earliest Olympians to be scrapped after it and four others were destroyed by fire at Rock Ferry depot | ECW | (34) |
| 2 | Formerly Ribble's 2185, G185JHG (ON11406) has lead a nomadic existance within the Stagecoach empire and is now 14185 with Stagecoach Devon, here she is seen at Teignmouth waiting to depart to Paignton 30/7/08 | Alexander | (32) |
| 3 | TM Travels former Lothian J844TSC (ON20164) departs Out of Service from Sheffield Interchange after arriving on a 214 from Matlock 18/10/08 | Alexander | (27) |
| 4 | One of the Last real Olympians to carry R type bodywork, Stagecoach Devon's 14717 K717ASC (ON20493) departs from Exeter en route to Tiverton 29/7/08 | Alexander | (27) |
| 5 | Notts & Derby 12 J871TSC (ON20218), Origionaly Lothian Regional Transport's 871, loads at Derby Station with a shuttle service to the Download Festival at Donnington 12/6/09 | Alexander | (24) |
| 6 | Whippets Former Stagecoach East Midlands Leyland Olympian H348SWA (ON11682) approaches Fenstanton en route to Cambridge from St Ives 3/6/09 | Alexander | (23) |
| 7 | Formerly Lothian RT 864, Notts & Derby's 10 J864TSC (ON20211) arrives at Derby Station en route to Weston on Trent 12/6/09 | Alexander | (22) |
| 8 | New to Merseyside PTE, Merseybus 0041 ACM772X (ON62) passes Liverpool's James St Station en route to Huyton | ECW | (22) |
| 9 | Former Hong Kong Tri-Axle 13629 H495LNA (ON20283) stands at Watford Gap Services after arring from Portsmouth on a Megabus Duty 19/4/09 | Alexander | (22) |
| 10 | New to Southampton as its 290, E290HRV (ON10433) still survives in the City as First 34990, but sees very little use these days | East Lancs | (20) |
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 | 21st May 2008 | Alexander (37 images)
Alexander of Falkirk provided a new style bodywork for the Olympian, known as the "R" type, these were mainly provided on chassis destined for operators in Scotland but a small number were also supplied to Merseyside PTE.
The "R" type was available in two variations, most being the Lower hight "RL", whilst the full height "RH" version was mainly produced for the municipal and PTE fleets.
The "R" was later made available on other Chassis such as Dennis's Dominator, MCW's Metrobus and in Small number's the Scania BR112 and later 113 Model and a version, the "RV" was also produced for the front engined Ailsa Volvo
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 | 22nd Jun 2009 | East Lancs (2 images)
The first East Lanc's built bodywork on Olympian Chassis was for Cardiff, whilst a number of othe rmunicipals also ordered some however they never really caught on with most other operators and Very few are still in Service.
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 | 21st May 2008 | ECW (56 images)
The Origional Olympian feature a new style bodywork by Eastern Coach Works of Lowestoft that looked a bit like a low height Leyland Titan, most vehicles Built for the former National Bus Company carried this bodywork.
in 1983 a completely redesigned Coach version was produced in small numbers.
When Leyland Closed the ECW factory in 1987 the last vehicle out of the plant was an Olympian for London Transport
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 | 22nd May 2008 | Leyland (18 images)
When Leyland Closed the ECW factory in Lowestoft Production of Olympian Bodywork was transferred to the Leyalnd plant at Workington, which was working below capacity due to the cancellation of the Titan and poor orders for the National 2.
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 | 21st May 2008 | Marshall (1 images)
Marshall of Cambridge only produced one batch of vehicles, all for Bournemouth's Yellow Buse's. although the same design of bodywork was also built onto Dennis Dominator's for Leicester and Volvo's for Derby
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 | 21st May 2008 | Northern Counties (17 images)
Northern Counties of Wigan produced a varation of the Manchester "Standard" bodywork for Greater Manchester PTE and produced over 300 of them for that operator, other's built to the same design were also produced for other operators including a batch for export to Kuwait
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 | 14th Jun 2008 | Optare (2 images)
Optare was a new company that bought out the troubled former Roe factory in Leed's, and continued to build bodies on Olympians, later Optare stopped building bodie's on other manufacturer's chassis's and developed vehicles of their own
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 | 21st May 2008 | Roe (9 images)
The Charles Roe Factory in Leeds was one of the origional manufacturers to produce a body for the Olympian, Mainly for West Yorkshire PTE but a Number were also produced for the National Bus Company
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