THE WALLACE ARNOLD IMAGE GALLERY
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 New owner Aintree Coaches brought former WA P331VWR to SHOWBUS international 2001. The base cream livery has not needed changing. A First Badgerline Volvo Citybus is seen behind. |
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Thames Transit acquired a batch of ex Wallace Arnold coaches for the 390 Oxford - London via Henley service and they operated for a while in WA cream with Thames scene murals and route information. They later donned conventional Tube livery and duties.
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 What a history this Leyland Leopard has: It was new in 1975 to WA's London subsidiary, Evan Evans as HWU78N. It was fitted with a 46 seat Plaxton Panorama Elite III coach body. It was exported to Australia and at some stage rebodied with this Custom 53 seat bus body. It has passed through several Australian operators including Challenge Travel and here with Sydney urban operator, Crossley. Crossley was associated with the Queensland operator, Whitsunday Transit, but the Sydney fleet was taken over by Connex in November 2001 and this photo was taken a few weeks after that event. It is seen in Bankstown. The bus subsequently passed on to another Sydney company, Transit First and with that operation to Veolia, being withdrawn in 2008. |
 Seen in the early years of this century is H634HWR at a depot near Heathrow of developing company, Bharat Coaches. The former WA coach is a Plaxton Paramount 3500 bodied B10M. |
 Dudley's Lady of the Lenches, P346VWR, a Plaxton bodied Volvo B10M which was new to Wallace Arnold is seen arriving with other fleet members at SHOWBUS 2008. |
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