Stagecoach Devon 16604
How on earth did that Next building get planning permission? It is completely out of place in Exeter's mostly immediate-post-war High Street and isn't an improvement on the Co-op building that had stood on that site before, although I expect that Next would disagree! Anyway the bus is Stagecoach Devon 16604 (R904 JDV) a 1998 Alexander bodied Volvo Olympian and one of three new to Devon General for service 373 which had been won on tender from North Devon Red Bus and were the first deckers bought new by DG for fourteen years, DG having recently been acquired by Stagecoach. No further new deckers arrived for another five years (plenty of second-hand ones, though), by which time Stagecoach was buying Dennises and the Olympian had been discontinued.
Stagecoach Devon 16604
How on earth did that Next building get planning permission? It is completely out of place in Exeter's mostly immediate-post-war High Street and isn't an improvement on the Co-op building that had stood on that site before, although I expect that Next would disagree! Anyway the bus is Stagecoach Devon 16604 (R904 JDV) a 1998 Alexander bodied Volvo Olympian and one of three new to Devon General for service 373 which had been won on tender from North Devon Red Bus and were the first deckers bought new by DG for fourteen years, DG having recently been acquired by Stagecoach. No further new deckers arrived for another five years (plenty of second-hand ones, though), by which time Stagecoach was buying Dennises and the Olympian had been discontinued.