Snoopy
December 1987 and Thames Transit 106 (D106 PTT), a Mellor bodied ‘Snoopy’ Ford Transit sets off for a journey on route 6 to Wood Farm in Oxford. Thames Transit started off with 42 of these in a new fleetnumber series commencing at 100. 141 was an odd one, registered D776 NDV in the middle of a Devon General batch. DG never had a bus numbered 776, whilst the registration D141 PTT was never used on a PSV* (D100-40 PTT were Transits and D142 PTT was a Tiger coach). In July 1989, this bus would have a summer holiday with Devon General before joining the rest of its sisters in London with Docklands Transit. It would rejoin Thames Transit when that operator briefly ran the newly acquired Portsmouth business in 1991 before running for Red Admiral (rather than Blue Admiral), Provincial (after Transit Holdings sold up) and then Southern National.
*D141 PTT was a Ford Escort, whether it was an ancilliary vehicle within the Transit Holdings Group, I have no idea. Edit - it was -see comments below
Snoopy
December 1987 and Thames Transit 106 (D106 PTT), a Mellor bodied ‘Snoopy’ Ford Transit sets off for a journey on route 6 to Wood Farm in Oxford. Thames Transit started off with 42 of these in a new fleetnumber series commencing at 100. 141 was an odd one, registered D776 NDV in the middle of a Devon General batch. DG never had a bus numbered 776, whilst the registration D141 PTT was never used on a PSV* (D100-40 PTT were Transits and D142 PTT was a Tiger coach). In July 1989, this bus would have a summer holiday with Devon General before joining the rest of its sisters in London with Docklands Transit. It would rejoin Thames Transit when that operator briefly ran the newly acquired Portsmouth business in 1991 before running for Red Admiral (rather than Blue Admiral), Provincial (after Transit Holdings sold up) and then Southern National.
*D141 PTT was a Ford Escort, whether it was an ancilliary vehicle within the Transit Holdings Group, I have no idea. Edit - it was -see comments below