That's all white then!
When Bristol Omnibus Company took delivery of its first Roe bodied Leyland (or, as we purists would rather call them, Bristol!) Olympians in the summer of 1982, a number of the first batch were delivered in an all over white livery so that they could be painted locally into a dedicated colour scheme for a group of new limited stop routes in the city of Bristol, which eventually emerged as the City Clipper services. However, having reached agreement with the management to drive only two doorway buses on city services in the late nineteen sixties the trades unions were having none of this single doorway invention, and the all white buses were instead allocated to country services until an agreement could be reached for single door operation in the city. Eventually the white buses were repainted green and a new batch of buses went to the city for the limited stop services. 9502, JHU901X, is seen here at Weston super Mare when new, having been sent to the depot for driver familiarisation.
When only a few months old the white Olympians found a new niche operation, being pressed into service on National Express services, principally between Weston super Mare, Bristol, Cheltenham and Birmingham, to cater for the vastly increased passenger numbers being experienced as a result of a national dispute on the railways.
That's all white then!
When Bristol Omnibus Company took delivery of its first Roe bodied Leyland (or, as we purists would rather call them, Bristol!) Olympians in the summer of 1982, a number of the first batch were delivered in an all over white livery so that they could be painted locally into a dedicated colour scheme for a group of new limited stop routes in the city of Bristol, which eventually emerged as the City Clipper services. However, having reached agreement with the management to drive only two doorway buses on city services in the late nineteen sixties the trades unions were having none of this single doorway invention, and the all white buses were instead allocated to country services until an agreement could be reached for single door operation in the city. Eventually the white buses were repainted green and a new batch of buses went to the city for the limited stop services. 9502, JHU901X, is seen here at Weston super Mare when new, having been sent to the depot for driver familiarisation.
When only a few months old the white Olympians found a new niche operation, being pressed into service on National Express services, principally between Weston super Mare, Bristol, Cheltenham and Birmingham, to cater for the vastly increased passenger numbers being experienced as a result of a national dispute on the railways.