I have it as with South Wales Transport. Other than minibuses (and an ex demo electric bus) I'm not aware Newport have anything as new as a 13 plate and certainly cant afford to lose them!
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Thanks, as Ensign in's and out's are published it may be possible to deduce what is coming.
Well I was in the right area wasn't I?!
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Mounts Bay Coaches have an Optare Solo! It is already in fleet colours and has one of their cherished registration plates (5049 VC) so I have no idea where it has come from. I believe this is the first of the type it has operated.
It’s been here since last summer. They’ve also two big optares one of which was 816SHW in Bristol before
I wasn't aware the Solo had been with them so long as I am down that way most months at some point, wonder where it's been hiding? Any idea on previous identity?
current fleet list posted by one of their drivers on Facebook last week:
OXI 632- Ceatano Optimo
OXI 626-Vanhool T9 B10m
OXI 726-Vanhool T9 B10m
XIL 4290-Vanhool T8 B10
OXI 725- Optare Tempo
5049 VC- Optare Solo
OXI 538- Iveco Iris Bus
X423 KAU- Alx400 B7tl
YX08 HGE-Merc Vario
YK55 AUN-BMC Condor
I’m led to believe it’s due to be sold to A2B Newquay but covid postponed as its replacement is up country somewhere waiting collection
Brooke
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Hi all, very interesting reading across all the Cornish threads (for someone who now lives abroad). All the discussion got me wondering: do Zoar Motors still run a few buses & what do they have these days if so? Are they affected by the TFC and schools tenders?
co-tr-paul
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Drove past a couple of weeks back. Mainly ex Plymouth Darts in the yard for school work on the Lizard. I'm sure someone else on here can give better details.
None of their fleet meet the 1998 age limit so will be interesting to see what happens.
I gather wheel Briton lost all their work
Brooke
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Thanks all! Interesting they still have the Darts, I remember those being there last time I was in Cornwall four or five years ago. Zoar always seemed to have the oldest buses around even when I was a kid and had to travel on them. It makes me think of another Q but probably for the Kernow forum!
Kernow Dave
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They currently have 2 ex Plymouth Bus Darts, Dart East Lancs EL2000, a Volvo Jonckheere Deauville, previously with Hopley Coaches, a Volvo Premiere previously with OTS. They also have a long wheel Transit minibus and a Mercedes Plaxton Beaver which has never seen service here.
Brooke
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Interesting to know, thanks! Jockheere sounds exotic for Zoar but if it’s ex-Hopley I think I know the one.
TheGrandWazoo
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Liskeard and District appeared with some modern fleet, filling the space between First vacating that area and Western Greyhound entering the fray so in the early 2000s.
Don’t know how they ended or when. Sorry
Kernow Dave
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As I recall they started in early 2001, The Liskeard & District Omnibus Co. The company was dissolved in May 2016.
I'm not sure of all the services but certainly a Liskeard-Looe/Polperro service. I think that they had 3 Dennis Dart SLF/Alexander, BLOTW records Y263KNB registered April 2004, so my dates may be out. My hazy memory seems to think that there was two W reg Darts as well. They were in dealer white with an impressive looking logo.
Kernow Dave
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Just re-read my note, should read April 2001.....
TheGrandWazoo
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With that registration, I suspect they were sourced via Cheshire Coach and Bus (which later became Mistral) so yeah, dealer white!
I’ve spent a short time googling them now, found the following:
Optare Alero VU02TTV blinded 281 pensilva via st cleer photo on a stop in Looe,
Dart W921JNF blinded 281 dobwalls and Trago Mills.
Wadham stringer dart L778XCV blinded 77 Plymouth via saltash
Dart S782RNE blinded 100 Liskeard via polperro and Looe
Dart W922JNF blinded 281 Looe parked on Liskeard parade. The photo description says hire from mistral
Sprinter WK02XLO in corlink on demand service Branding
Transit. M876DDS blinded 274 menheniot
Vito SJ54ULP photo’d at showbus sept 2004 so a 54 plate would be 3 weeks old at most!
LDV SF07KFZ blinded 281, no destination
Alx200 Y263KNB blinded 281 pensilva,
Peugeot P107WJO blind 277 town service, curious about this unusual bus, also P106WJO out of service https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnm...9SC-wZ9jXj-74DFbc-kcGTNK-tB3YEu-wjTyMs-xeAoxY
The 281 appears to have gone everywhere!
Optare Alero VU02TTV blinded 281 pensilva via st cleer photo on a stop in Looe,
Dart W921JNF blinded 281 dobwalls and Trago Mills.
Wadham stringer dart L778XCV blinded 77 Plymouth via saltash
Dart S782RNE blinded 100 Liskeard via polperro and Looe
Dart W922JNF blinded 281 Looe parked on Liskeard parade. The photo description says hire from mistral
Sprinter WK02XLO in corlink on demand service Branding
Transit. M876DDS blinded 274 menheniot
Vito SJ54ULP photo’d at showbus sept 2004 so a 54 plate would be 3 weeks old at most!
LDV SF07KFZ blinded 281, no destination
Alx200 Y263KNB blinded 281 pensilva,
Peugeot P107WJO blind 277 town service, curious about this unusual bus, also P106WJO out of service https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnm...9SC-wZ9jXj-74DFbc-kcGTNK-tB3YEu-wjTyMs-xeAoxY
The 281 appears to have gone everywhere!
Apparently a TBP Freeway II, new to Pathfinder of Newark
Kernow Dave
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Thanks for that, it does bring back memories. But I can't say that I ever recall seeing the Peugeot's, as you say strange bus indeed.
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