THE HOME COUNTIES BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Motts Travel Yellow Bus
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 Absorbed from one of the independent fleets taken over by South Yorkshire PTE, this Plaxton Bustler bodied Leopard was one of a number of South Yorkshire PTE vehicles (including several Rolls Royce powered Metrobuses and an Optare bodied Dennis Domino) which formed the initial Motts Yellow Bus fleet. Following agreement with The Shires and City of Oxford, the Yellow Bus operations were scaled down, but OWG368X survived and still worked the original Yellow Bus M1 route. It is seen here loading at Reading Station for Aylesbury in the M1 heyday. The Reading service later terminated at High Wycombe and later still at Stokenchurch before the contract was lost. Leopard OWG368X passed to Abbeyways of High Wycombe in late 2002, replaced by the Timeline Tigers which joined Motts fleet. It retained its yellow livery and gained School Bus lettering with the now defunct Abbey. |
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Yellow Bus OWG368X, the Plaxton Bustler bodied Yorkshire Leopard, is seen alongside Neoplan Skyliner B12TMT.
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 Acquired after the main Yellow Bus operation had passed to The Shires, 641UTO is a 1991 East Lancs rebodied Volvo B58 from the Black Prince fleet in Yorkshire. It was new with a Plaxton coach body to West Yorkshire PTE's Metrocoach division as 1512 (LUB512P). It is seen in Thame on route 11 which supposedly tied in with commuter train times at Haddenham and Thame Parkway. |
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 The bus is seen here in the special bus lay by at Haddenham & Thame station. The service was contracted by Buckinghamshire County Council. Passengers were few and far between, but Mr Prescott at the Department of Transport was paying and sadly the Council had made little effort to tie the times in well with the trains. The bus here arrives in the evening for the last run to Brill and Oakley ten minutes before the train, it then has to wait until ten minutes after the train has left before it begins its journey?!? |
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