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Metroline is part of the Singapore based Comfort DelGro group, and operates over 1200 buses in North, North West, West, and Central London, employing nearly 4000 staff.
AV39 (Previously SBS 7251) is a Volvo Olympian with 10.5m Alexander Royale bodywork, and was acquired from fellow subsidiary SBS Transit based in Singapore in August 2000. It entered service the possible Spring for evaluation as a possible replacement for the ageing MCW Metrobus fleet. The idea was not pursued and no more examples were acquired.
The bus was initially allocated to Willesden Garage before moving on to Park Royal Garage, where it normally worked the 266, which is as it is modelled here. It's last base was Harrow Weald where it was used on contract work.
After sale it passed to Ensign (dealer) who converted it to single door, retrimmed it (Using the 'D Stock' moquette as used on the District line tube stock and the Titans and Metrobuses) and sold it on to Veolia Group who used it in Cardiff.
The model depicted here is a CMNL release and is posed on a home made diorama.