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Wyvern Bus Preseravtion Group have now owned this vehicle for 4 mouths and this Monday it goes for MOT and has spent its time with the group at the Whittle Yard being fixed. after if it passes its MOT it will be painted back into EYMS Whittle Livery Green and White

Can anyone help with the history of this vehicle please? (Tim maybe? )

AdamH wrote: ↑

21:14 Thursday 26th January 2017

Can anyone help with the history of this vehicle please? (Tim maybe? )

Not sure which bus is required so I have had a look through recent PSV Circle Newsletters plus Bus Lists on the Web and West Midlands Buses in Photographs websites for two Darts with following history;

Dennis Dart SLF with Plaxton B29F bodywork;

W469 UAG New 04/00 to East Yorkshire, Hull (469);
recorded as Scarborough and District by 02/09;
Whittles, Kidderminster? (168) 05/09,
Cymru Coaches, Tregof Village, Swansea 01/15.

W694 EOP New 06/00 or 08/00 to Merlin Venture (Trading as Valley Travel), Birmingham;
Central Buses, Birmingham 11/12;
Whittles, Kidderminster (169) 12/12;
Cymru Coaches, Tregof Village, Swansea 01/15.

Please advise new owners and dates to complete the record!

Photographs taken in Kidderminster early in 2013.

Thank you Tim,

I believe both of these are now owned by Wyvern Bus Preservation Group, but W469UAG is a non-runner that was donated to the group for spares when they bought W469EOP.

I'm sure Matt will be along to correct me if I'm wrong.

AdamH wrote: ↑

19:43 Friday 27th January 2017

Thank you Tim,

I believe both of these are now owned by Wyvern Bus Preservation Group, but W469UAG is a non-runner that was donated to the group for spares when they bought W694EOP.

I'm sure Matt will be along to correct me if I'm wrong.

I am still a bit confused as to which bus is preserved; is W694 EOP (ex fleet no. 169) about to be repainted and W469 UAG (ex fleet no. 168) the spares donor? I note that the Whittles fleet numbering did not correspond with the registration digits, so perhaps that caused the identification glitch!

Yes Tim, that is the correct way around... I hadn't even noticed the typo!

I'll edit the post title.