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Absorbed from one of the independent fleets taken over by South Yorkshire PTE, this Plaxton Bustler bodied Leopard was one of a number of South Yorkshire vehicles (including several Rolls Royce powered Metrobuses and an Optare bodied Dennis Domino) which formed Motts Yellow Bus initial fleet. Following agreement with The Shires and City of Oxford, the Yellow Bus operations have been scaled down, but OWG368X survived and still worked the original Yellow Bus M1 route: it is seen here loading at Reading Station for Aylesbury in the M1 heyday. The Reading service later terminated at Wycombe. OWG368X passed to Abbeyways of High Wycombe in late 2002, replaced by the Timeline Tigers. It retained its yellow livery and gained School Bus lettering with the now defunct Abbey.

Motts Skyliner and Leopard/Plaxton Bustler

OWG368X, the Plaxton Bustler bodied Yorkshire Leopard is seen alongside Neoplan Skyliner B12T MT.

CUB540Y, seen here arriving in Oxford for the Oxford Brookes Summer Ball shuttle in 2001, still in Yellow Bus colours. The bus was one of the late additions to the Yellow Bus fleet, acquired from London Transport, but was originally with West Yorkshire PTE.

Acquired after the main Yellow Bus operation had passed to The Shires, 641UTO is an East Lancs rebodied Volvo B58 from the Black Prince fleet in Yorkshire. It is seen in Thame on route 11, a route tied in with commuter train times at Haddenham and Thame Parkway.

The bus is seen here in the special bus lay by at Haddenham & Thame station. The service is contracted by Buckinghamshire County Council. Passengers are few and far between, but Mr Prescott is paying and sadly the Council has made little effort to tie the times in well with the trains. The bus here arrives in the evening for the last run to Brill and Oakley ten minutes before the train, it then has to wait until ten minutes after the train has left before it begins its journey?!?

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