THE SHOWBUS UK ANGLIAN GALLERY
First BlueBus
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Sandwiched between the 2000th Dennis Dart ever built with the 1000th Plaxton Pointer body, Thamesway's 934 (M934TEV) and a First Midland Red Plaxton Beaver bodied Mercedes is the ECW bodied Bristol VRTSL3, First BlueBus 31 (CVF31T) on which EFE's Showbus promotional model was based for the 1998 SHOWBUS display.
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The SHOWBUS 98 model, by then numbered 320 (CVF31T) on route 604 to Great Yarmouth.
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 Like the VR 57 (G457KNG), an early Duple bodied Dennis Dart passed to First's BlueBus division with the rest of the fleet when the Corporation sold to First. Seen at Millennium Showbus in the short lived yellow/blue variant of the First Essex colour scheme, 57 is next to a Marshall bodied Dart for London mobility services. Marshall obtained the rights to the body design which passed to MCV via Carlyle and then Marshall. The Duple heritage can even be seen in the 2004 designs of MCV. |
 Dual purpose seated BlueBus East Lancs bodied Dart 419 (K62KEX) was Yarmouth 62. It is seen at SHOWBUS international 2001 alongside a Provincial dual door Leyland National, 40 (SBK740S). |
 A former Grampian Irizar Century bodied Scania L94IB, 714 (P20GRT) was alongside, seemingly in BlueBus colours, but actually with Eastern Counties as their number 10 and still in the remnants of Citylink livery. |
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