THE SHOWBUS LONDON & HOME COUNTIES BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Red Rover Leyland National
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 The Nottingham livery was deemed to be a bit anemic so a repaint was ordered into tradtional Red Rover "rhubarb and custard" colours. Red bumpers, destination surround and relief lines were added together with a chunkier fleetname. Sometime after 132 was reborn it was the bus chosen for the birth of a new Sunday "Countrybus" service 22 cleverly designed to combine a Sunday service on LINKLINE with a leisure route serving the attractions of Waddesdon Manor, Quainton Steam Railway and Claydon House. As an added boost to patronage it was also timed for visitors to Springhill Prison. Prison visiting had long been possible on the designated Wednesdays and Saturdays, but hitherto a taxi was the only Sunday option. Unlike the 9, the 22 stopped outside Aylesbury Station and awaited the trains from London. Here 132 is posed in front of Waddesdon Manor.
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 Unusally the Countrybus was allowed into the grounds and performed quite a long loop round the one way system on the internal roads to get back into the village.
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 Another shot posed in the grounds by the fountain at the foot of the driveway to the house which served as the Countrybus bus stop. The large poster in the windscreen promotes the Countrybus service.
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 Here 132 is back in Buckingham Street, probably on a 14 to Elmhurst, though the bus might be returning on a route 2 from Buckingham and - as was often the case - straight out on a 14. In the bacjground is an Oxford-South Midland ECW bodied Bristol VRTSL3 Oxford bound on the trunk 280 service.
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 Enemy on the site! A United Counties Willowbrook bodied Bedford YRT was visiting the Red Rover depot for some reason and is seen alongside 132.
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