First Glasgow Scania LU94B/Wright Solar Eclipse
A solitary Scania....For many years, First Glasgow used to be a Scania enclave for single-deckers, building up a large fleet of Axcess Ultralows and Axcess Flolines. First at that time tended to split its bus orders between Scania’s and Volvo although at the turn of the millennium, it went more or less exclusively for Volvo to the detriment of Scania. Now, apart from some Scania’s in the training fleet along a with a quartet transferred from First Midland Bluebird the only other Scania’s in the fleet are those that were acquired when First acquired the services of Hutchinson’s of Overtown.
Hutchison of Overtown was a well respected independent operator based in Lanarkshire who’d built up a network of services in North Lanarkshire as well as Express Services to Glasgow. In April 2007 it’s local bus services passed to First Glasgow along with its modern fleet of Scania and Volvo buses such as 65755 (SK02ZYG) seen here. The buses are immediately recognisable by their gasket windows - as opposed to bonded on equivalent First bought buses - and their non-standard interiors. Having travelled on this bus, it’s still in fine fettle for its age, compared to an equivalent First Volvo B7L which is falling to pieces. Although that might have something to do the fact that Hutchinson’s looked after its buses and the Volvo’s are terrible buses.
First Glasgow Scania LU94B/Wright Solar Eclipse
A solitary Scania....For many years, First Glasgow used to be a Scania enclave for single-deckers, building up a large fleet of Axcess Ultralows and Axcess Flolines. First at that time tended to split its bus orders between Scania’s and Volvo although at the turn of the millennium, it went more or less exclusively for Volvo to the detriment of Scania. Now, apart from some Scania’s in the training fleet along a with a quartet transferred from First Midland Bluebird the only other Scania’s in the fleet are those that were acquired when First acquired the services of Hutchinson’s of Overtown.
Hutchison of Overtown was a well respected independent operator based in Lanarkshire who’d built up a network of services in North Lanarkshire as well as Express Services to Glasgow. In April 2007 it’s local bus services passed to First Glasgow along with its modern fleet of Scania and Volvo buses such as 65755 (SK02ZYG) seen here. The buses are immediately recognisable by their gasket windows - as opposed to bonded on equivalent First bought buses - and their non-standard interiors. Having travelled on this bus, it’s still in fine fettle for its age, compared to an equivalent First Volvo B7L which is falling to pieces. Although that might have something to do the fact that Hutchinson’s looked after its buses and the Volvo’s are terrible buses.