| 8/2004 |
?, ? (dealer for scrap) |
| 2/2004 - 8/2004 |
First
Devon & Cornwall Ltd. 38848.
Withdrawn c4/2004. Used heavily for spares, by 6/2004 |
| 3/1999 - 2/2004 |
First Western National Buses Ltd. 1227.
Overall yellow and black advert for Darlows
Estate Agents, 6/99. Fitted with bus seats
upstairs (still coach-seated downstairs) and altered to H42/31F, by 6/99. Fleet livery,
3/2001. Withdrawn 4/2003.
Reinstated at Plymouth, 5/2003. Renumbered 38848, 1/2004 |
| 3/1990 - 3/1999 |
Western National Ltd. 1227. Refurbished, by
9/95 |
| 1/1986 - 3/1990 |
Badgerline Ltd. 5539 |
| 8/1981 - 1/1986 |
Bristol Omnibus Company Ltd. 5539. Rebuilt to
CH??/??F, ??/8? |
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The end has arrived - this is July 2006 and 1227 is reduced
to a battered shell (Photo : Glyn Williams)
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Unbelievably, 1227 was reinstated at Plymouth
following its withdrawal and subsequent storage at Bude in
April 2003 and lasted a further year before finally heading
for the scrapman. Here it is seen on an 83 turn (Photo : Nick Rice)
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Transferred to Cornwall 1227 is now seen
leaving Truro Bus Station during March 2003. By now it had
received the front cowl from another VR in the older livery
(Photo : Terry Partridge)
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In Plymouth Bus Station during 2001, having been repainted
in the last version of Western National fleet livery before
Barbie 2 was introduced (Photo : Nick Foster)
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Leaving Paignton Bus
Station on February 15th 2000 in Darlows Estate
Agents overall advertising livery (Photo: Ian
Kirby)
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"Badgers and
Flags" livery, c1995. (Photo: BVRES
Collection)
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In overall advert for Plymco Superstores, date unknown
(Photo : Terry Partridge)
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In the first version of
Western National fleet livery applied after
transfer from Badgerline in Plymouth on December
12th 1990 (Photo: Kelvin Amos Collection)
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At Bath Bus Station in
freshly-applied Badgerline livery in 1985 having
recently been rebuilt with coach seating (Photo:
Rob Sly)
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Outside Bristol Bus Station in
NBC green livery in 1983 (Photo: Rob Sly)
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