SHOWBUS international 2007 photos

Centennial Display

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After flirting with Irizar bodied Scanias, the latest delivery for the Reading-Heathrow railair service is a trio of Volvo B12B Plaxton Panther coaches. The Reading Rail-Air link service has a long history dating back to 1967 when Thames Valley operated Duple Viceroy bodied Bedford VAMs. First Berkshire 20613 (LK07CDN) has a pride of place display in front of the American Air Museum, adjacent to the main First display.

One of two coaches entered by the long established firm of Pulham's Coaches from Bourton-on-the-Water. This is a short Dennis Javelin, GL06PUL, it was accompanied by GL07PUL a Panther bodied B12B.

We were especially delighted when City Of Oxford entered one of their 2007 airline coaches in SHOWBUS as we had already used an image of one of these new Plaxton Panther Volvo B12Bs as the main logo for our 2007 event. Each entrant received a plaque, courtesy of Go-Ahead with the image upon it and every bus at the rally featured a window display with their rally number alongside the image. Much was made of the contrasting blue and yellow colours elsewhere too. The Panther was posed at the end of the Go-Ahead line-up, but also at the gateway to the Plaxton display.