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The Bournemouth Heritage Collection was evicted from Mallard Road in 1992 and moved into a hanger at Hurn, but the Routemaster Bournemouth operation ran from the former trolleybus depot at Southcote Road latterly used by street cleansing and refuse collection vehicles but in which the Council rented out spare space. It may appear strange, on the face of it, that the Council should rent depot facilities to a bus company that was competing with its own bus company; but it became even stranger when some of the vehicles from the Heritage Collection were painted into Routemaster Bournemouth livery and used on the commercial services, including at least two of the buses that were actually owned by Bournemouth Council!
One of these was former Bournemouth Corporation no 230 (ORU 230G), Leyland Atlantean / Alexander, seen in the Square on service 604 on 17th June 1994.
When Clydeside 2000 was taken over by LDT the support for Routemaster Bournemouth ceased and BHT Buses ceased trading in August 1994 and went into voluntary liquidation.
BHTBuses-230-ORU230G-Bournemouth-170694
The Bournemouth Heritage Collection was evicted from Mallard Road in 1992 and moved into a hanger at Hurn, but the Routemaster Bournemouth operation ran from the former trolleybus depot at Southcote Road latterly used by street cleansing and refuse collection vehicles but in which the Council rented out spare space. It may appear strange, on the face of it, that the Council should rent depot facilities to a bus company that was competing with its own bus company; but it became even stranger when some of the vehicles from the Heritage Collection were painted into Routemaster Bournemouth livery and used on the commercial services, including at least two of the buses that were actually owned by Bournemouth Council!
One of these was former Bournemouth Corporation no 230 (ORU 230G), Leyland Atlantean / Alexander, seen in the Square on service 604 on 17th June 1994.
When Clydeside 2000 was taken over by LDT the support for Routemaster Bournemouth ceased and BHT Buses ceased trading in August 1994 and went into voluntary liquidation.