A bobby dazzler
N748 OYR was an East Lancs bodied Dennis Dart which had started life with The Metropolitan Police. Needless to say, when it and its sisters came up for sale, they were going to make a sound buy for someone.
N748 passed to Quantock Motor Services of Taunton who were then expanding into local service work at a rapid rate. Unfortunately as many others found, there was no good living to be made out of doing so in that area. With that in mind, operations were scaled back and buses offered for sale. It was fairly well known here in Stoke on Trent that ever expanding D&G were on the look out for modern service buses, hence the appearance here of 748 at the rear of the old Longton Bus Station which was then D&G's principal operating base. Following inspection the EL Dart was purchased and soon gained the Stoke firm's then blue and cream livery. I believe the move to step free entrance buses eventually saw its sale, but I've no idea to where ... if it left in one piece.
A bobby dazzler
N748 OYR was an East Lancs bodied Dennis Dart which had started life with The Metropolitan Police. Needless to say, when it and its sisters came up for sale, they were going to make a sound buy for someone.
N748 passed to Quantock Motor Services of Taunton who were then expanding into local service work at a rapid rate. Unfortunately as many others found, there was no good living to be made out of doing so in that area. With that in mind, operations were scaled back and buses offered for sale. It was fairly well known here in Stoke on Trent that ever expanding D&G were on the look out for modern service buses, hence the appearance here of 748 at the rear of the old Longton Bus Station which was then D&G's principal operating base. Following inspection the EL Dart was purchased and soon gained the Stoke firm's then blue and cream livery. I believe the move to step free entrance buses eventually saw its sale, but I've no idea to where ... if it left in one piece.