Alec Head Bedford YNT Plaxton Supreme VI NGL 276X at their Lutton base, 16th October, 2001. It was new to Cornishman, Wadebridge, and came from Simonds of Botesdale in 2000.
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Alec Head Bedford YNT Plaxton Supreme VI NGL 276X at their Lutton base, 16th October, 2001. It was new to Cornishman, Wadebridge, and came from Simonds of Botesdale in 2000.
Reliance, Sutton-on-the-Forest, Leyland Tiger Plaxton Supreme VI SND 352X in York, 9th February, 1994. It was new to Mayne, Manchester. Sadly, Reliance relinquished their stage services last weekend, the end of an era.
A tidy looking Plaxton Supreme VI Express bodied Tiger which had made the long journey to Belle Vue from Sables of Keith, so was, as they used to say, 'here to sell'. New as Hills NDW 145X, one of 9 similar coaches they bought in 1982, it would eventually pass into preservation in 2012 although where it is now seems something of a mystery.
Plaxton Supreme VI Express bodied Volvo B10M with Norfolks of Nayland. Bought new as VGV 445X, it ran for some years as 229 LRB and then gained this registration for a brief time in March 1988 prior to sale the following month. A rare beast being one of just five 11m B10Ms with this coachwork.
A rare Plaxton Supreme VI Express bodied Leyland Tiger - new to Davies of Pencader. One of just 15 of this combination - with the bulk (9) being bought by Hills of Tredegar. It ran here until the firm ceased in 1999 and then passed briefly to First Cymru.
283URB 3 (ANK320X)
Preserved Chesterfield
Plaxton Supreme VI/Leyland Tiger
Showbus 2022
25/09/22
Plaxton Supreme VI Express bodied Leyland PSU3F/5R - new to Eagre (Eaglen), this was one of just two Supreme VI express bodied 11m Leopards. It survives today in preservation albeit under a different registration.
Plaxtons don't some are rarer than this - the unique Leopard PSU5 with Supreme VI Express body seen here when nearly new with Squirrell of Hitcham. Despite being a real oddball it would survive until 2011 up in Staffordshire.
There were nine Plaxron Supreme VI Express bodied Bedford YNTs of which Whittles took two at the time when they seemed to buy a wide mixture of odd vehicles. After sale in 1992 it headed to Cornwall and then finally up to The Orkneys where it survived in use with Rapson up to 2004, a well travelled and long lived coach!
A rather rare Plaxton Supreme VI Express bodied Ford R1114 - one of just 10 examples of this combination built. New to Simonds of Botesdale it would remain there for it's entire career, finally being scrapped around 2007. Seen here in 1984 in its original stripy livery
Former Biss of Bishops Stortford, 1982 Leyland Tiger, with Plaxton Supreme VI bodywork. Carrying the livery of Chesterfield Transport fleet number 3. Registered ANK 320X from new, but also carried the reg RHE 969X while with Caring Coaches.
On static display at the Herts Showground for the 50th SHOWBUS on Sunday 25th September
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Former Biss of Bishops Stortford, 1982 Leyland Tiger, with Plaxton Supreme VI bodywork. Carrying the livery of Chesterfield Transport fleet number 3. Registered ANK 320X from new, but also carried the reg RHE 969X while with Caring Coaches.
Arriving at the Herts Showground for the 50th SHOWBUS on Sunday 25th September
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I first experienced Rail Replacement work during my time at Devon General where Bristol VRs, Olympians and Leopards were standard fayre. In the mid noughties, I strayed back to such work at Southern Transit which had been set up by my former manager at Guide Friday. On 9th May, 2009, ex Osbornes and Hedingham Leyland Tiger TRCTL11/2R Plaxton Supreme VI CPU 125X arrives in Uckfield ready for me to complete the late turn on the Edenbridge service - in some ways it wasn't so very far removed from those Tiger engined Leopard Supremes I had driven those twenty years before. It is also a rare shot of its regular driver, Karen, no longer with us and who hated having her photo taken.
Former Biss of Bishops Stortford, 1982 Leyland Tiger, with Plaxton Supreme VI bodywork. Carrying the livery of Chesterfield Transport fleet number 3. Registered ANK 320X from new, but also carried the reg RHE 969X while with Caring Coaches.
Seen at the Wythall BUSFEST at The British Motor Museum, Gaydon 2nd July 2022
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Preserved Tiger/Plaxton Supreme VI CBM13X at Ravensthorpe 15th 2022.
CBM13X Ld TRCTL11/3R 8101536 Pn 8212LTS6C005 C53F 5/1982 Premier, Watford
VTT14X was a DAF MB200DKTL / Plaxton Supreme VI C51F purchased new by Garrett of Newton Abbot in February 1981. It passed to Lattimore of Markyate in December 1988, then WHM of Hutton in June 1991. A year later it joined Shank's t/a Border Travel of Galashiels, and was up-seated to C57F. Lowland took over the business in April 1992 and re-registered the coach to FFS10X a couple of years later.
VTT14X was a DAF MB200DKTL / Plaxton Supreme VI C51F purchased new by Garrett of Newton Abbot in February 1981. It passed to Lattimore of Markyate in December 1988, then WHM of Hutton in June 1991. A year later it joined Shank's t/a Border Travel of Galashiels, and was up-seated to C57F. Lowland took over the business in April 1992 and re-registered the coach to FFS10X a couple of years later.
Ex Moor-Dale Bedford YNT Plaxton Supreme VI LTY 556X spent many years with Provence Private Hire of St Albans and was seen in Brighton on 18th July, 1993.
