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Post by sconehead85 on Apr 7, 2012 23:44:17 GMT 1
The DVLA were terrified that combination of numbers suffixed by HOL or OLE.
I wonder if during 2005/6 (reg period 55) the registrations AA, BA, CA etc were issued?
With the post-2001 system matching fleet/reg numbers dont occur, except for special registrations.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2012 18:51:05 GMT 1
By the time this block were delivered they'd moved on to A-reg. It was thought (by DVLA ?) that A55x xxx might have been mis-read as ASSx xxx. Hence the jump to A560. Thanks for solving that mystery Mike - although I do find it a bit hard to believe I can just about do so! I have wondered about that for 25 years or so, since the age of 12! I have similar WR Olympian 'mystery' which resulted in 'missing buses' at the start of the range. For some reason, the WR Leyland Olympian fleet was chipped at early, when 500 and 501 (XWY475/476X) were sold at age around 5 (roughly 1987). I can never understand why they sold these when there were still 100 or so older Bristol VRs in service! Anyone know why?
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Post by ay1403 on Apr 12, 2012 20:07:21 GMT 1
It's been back for about a week now. Saw it last week with number plate on a dodgy angle lol. Were you going to keep it's return to yourself! No I just forgot to tell everyone
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Post by mikeb on Apr 14, 2012 17:05:07 GMT 1
There are a couple of reasons I would venture. 1) West Riding group were able to afford new vehicles as part of their ongoing replacement program. 2) The early Olympians were not without their faults, chiefly with perceived weaknesses around the front bulkhead / staircase areas which were to prove somewhat expensive to reinforce. Consequently they were released before the need to recertify them. (Later ones had the necessary modifications built in, but even those creaked when subjected to rapid changes of directions eg on/off roundabouts).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2012 19:12:20 GMT 1
There are a couple of reasons I would venture. 1) West Riding group were able to afford new vehicles as part of their ongoing replacement program. 2) The early Olympians were not without their faults, chiefly with perceived weaknesses around the front bulkhead / staircase areas which were to prove somewhat expensive to reinforce. Consequently they were released before the need to recertify them. (Later ones had the necessary modifications built in, but even those creaked when subjected to rapid changes of directions eg on/off roundabouts). MikeB Thanks for the possible explaination Mike. Would make sense as I seem to remember that 502-504 (XWY477-479X) also left the fleet very early (many years before any of the large 505+ CWR-Y batch). Would the fault you describe be more with the ECW body than the actual Leyland chasis?
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