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The driver let someone who wanted to purchase an nbus ticket on for free, so essentially the 19 is a free service atm if you ask for an nbus, I do question how long they've got to get ticket machines before TfWM start questioning it.

Not easy to get immediately but do not concern yourself, they will get them. Just good to see they are getting on with the job in a professional way

In theory if they already have coaches then they could use a coach as long as its PSVAR equipped (I.e wheelchair lift, LED display blinds etc).

That is not correct, the vehicle needs to be low floor which a coach is not

It is indeed a bit more than a 'minibus', according to our DVSA VRM lookup we use at work, it comes up as a Mercedes Atego, which makes it a truck!

Unusual choice of platform to put a coach body on!

A lot of strange things happened at the London Olympics

It reminds me of Gordon from Thomas the Tank Engine!

It has quite a pompous look to it (and I rather like it!) - reminds me of the Leyland Swifts that Stevensons used to operate.

Good to drive but all the staff affectionally call it the horsebox. PSVAR so what is there not to like, we cannot all be good looking

No. just needs a new turbo and a general overall

I totally agree, it is exceptionally ugly but very functional for the job it was purchased for

Bit more then a minibus as it has 44 seats !! Ex London Olympics vehicle with very low mileage used on home to school services

Many smaller operators choose not to paint their buses and leave them 'dealership white', Kevs, Landflight and Solus also spring to mind.

The TfWM Enhanced Partnership document states the following with regards to vehicle livery:
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If Lets Go choose to keep their vehicles plain white, then as long as they display their logos, then they are doing nothing wrong.

Sorry but Kev's only have two new vehicles not in Kev's full livery and they will be in the next week or so. This has been due to the Christmas break and one vehicle being on loan from Dawsons awaiting delivery of a Mellor vehicle

UXO and FJO now returned to Mistral and Dawsons

They were based in Smethwick not far from London street at the same time as Citybuslines. Lasted about as long as each other, at the time we thought Falcon was part of Little Red Bus

Thanks for posting that!  I see YX 61 GAA still has not gone!
As we spoke recently, Bustimes.org https://bustimes.org/operators/kevs-cars-and-coaches/vehicles has a vehicle LV 73 TWY (as well as the correct LV 73 TYW).  It seems to be a duplication as they both have similar route schedules.  But it doesn't have LV 73 TWD for some reason.

GA to be retained as a spare vehicle, some confusion with Mellor vehicles at the moment but will be corrected later this week

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Staying as a spare for now

Also the ticket machine out of YX61 GBE is running around in one of the new 73 plates. Saw it on the 55 today.

Presumably the Ex-Londons time is up here with the new deliveries?

Correct. Not able to get new machines on the system quick enough so used the number of our of service vehicle. GBE and ex London vehicles back to Dawsons on Thursday. Thanks once again to Dawsons for helping us so much after the fire

Thanks for spotting this, our machines are managed by TfWM so I will get to them Monday