Claribels

[BBS]

News link below shows a picture of a Claribels bus - COMPLETELY UNRELATED to the news story it is shown against.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/police-probe-after-teen-robbed-23006882

very nice looking pulsar with the white touches

[Steveminor]

Old photo BOH has not been in the fleet for 5 years now

[Gareth]

Old photo BOH has not been in the fleet for 5 years now

Well it does say the photo comes from google images.

[Stu]

Well it does say the photo comes from google images.

That's typical of the Birmingham Mail unfortunately.

[Wumpty]

I knew it was a Google image. Two things struck me with this;

1. Very rarely see press photos (regardless of source) showing independent operators given the ratio of NXWM to independents;
2. Great to see how good the Claribels bus looked in the photo.

[BBS]

@Steveminor I'm not sure but are KCV and BOF still in service as on the Claribels Fleet page both are displayed as in service?

[cris 99]

KCV was never a service bus only used for school contracts. Never seen a pic of it in service apart from when it was new in Solihull. and BOF is still around i saw it tuesday on the 75

[BBS]

KCV was never a service bus only used for school contracts. Never seen a pic of it in service apart from when it was new in Solihull. and BOF is still around i saw it tuesday on the 75

ah OK thank you very much

[Steveminor]

KCV was only ever used once on stage carriage work & was sold to alan Hardwick for scrap several months ago.
As pointed out BOF is still in fleet it was the sister bus BOH that was sold to compass & is now registered PBZ8343

[2206]

KCV was only ever used once on stage carriage work & was sold to alan Hardwick for scrap several months ago.
As pointed out BOF is still in fleet it was the sister bus BOH that was sold to compass & is now registered PBZ8343

BOF is often seen on Blossomfield Road in the morning passing Solihull Swimming Baths as it was this morning.

[BBS]

BOF is often seen on Blossomfield Road in the morning passing Solihull Swimming Baths as it was this morning.

Would love to see it on the 36

[Steveminor]

That will never happen as it has not been converted to route 6 & therefore be non compliant on the contract.

[Jack]

That will never happen as it has not been converted to route 6 & therefore be non compliant on the contract.

YJ58 FDV isn't Euro 6 either is it? That's a common one on the 36...

[Steveminor]

It has been converted to euro 6

[Tony]

It has been converted to euro 6

You need to tell the DVSA, They still have it chargeable in the Birmingham CAZ, we have had similar problems with a couple of buses