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Bristol RE OTA 639 G

OTA639G was delivered as Southern National's 2379 during Mar 1969.

It had 45 coach seats in it's Eastern Coachworks body, number 17492.
When built it was fitted with a 2 piece coach (small) destination panel and a coach type door. (Illustrations)
Its chassis (number RELH-4-207) was powered by a Gardner engine.

This vehicle no longer exists, it was last recorded in Feb 1992.

A model of this vehicle was produced by EFE (number 32305),details from http://www.britishmodelbuses.com/ or Buy it on ebay.		 
 

Photographs

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Where no copyright details are shown the photo is known to exist, but is not freely available.
There may be other photos on the Internet that I cannot show the links for. See 'Useful sites for finding pictures' on the links page.
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** = Black and white photo, otherwise colour.

   Livery Owner Date Location Photo copyright Photo link
 Royal Blue Blue/Cream Western National 2379  Bournemouth Book-Glory - Royal Blue  Buy Book 
**Royal Blue Blue/Cream Western National 2379  Totnes    
 NBC CAG White/Blue Western National 2379 17 Feb 1973 Bridport Book-Royal Blue Days  Buy Book 
**NBC Express North  Mar 1983 Sherburn in Elmet Rex Holt Click Here 
 NBC Express North  3 Aug 1983 Carlton John Carter Click Here 
 NBC Express North  9 Feb 1992 Sherburn in Elmet 79842765 Click Here 


Diary for OTA639G

Date Event Owner Number Allocation Details Livery
Mar 1969 Built for:Southern National 2379   Royal Blue Blue/Cream 
25 Nov 1969 Sold to:Western National 2379    
Feb 1974   Bournemouth   
Jul 1975   Bournemouth Plymouth Bus Club  
May 1980 Withdrawn by:Western National    
Nov 1980 Sold to:North 2380    

Owners shown above in Green are preservationists, Red are dealers, Blue for PSV use and brown for None-PSV.



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