< View previous picture - View next picture > Photographer / Copyright Damon Cross Images should not be reused without permission. View vehicle details 8429F LT17WCR 8567T LK67XZA Location Link/s Acton Town, Hearne House Date added to site 28/09/2017 Printer-friendly version of this page

Details: An open day was held at the Acton Museum Depot recently and, as usual, vintage bus rides were offered, this time using RM1 and newly-restored RML3. Because the rear yard of the depot was given over to entertainment and catering facilities, the buses entered adjoining Hearne House to turn around, albeit not whilst carrying passengers. Contributor Damon Cross was acting as a conductor for the weekend and was able to grab this interesting view on the Saturday (23rd September 2017). Visible are two of the Ford Transit Connect Mk2 vans which this location seems to have a fondness for (8429F on the left and 7931F peeking in from the right). Note the offside cargo door on 8429F. Of more interest is the newly-delivered Toyota Prius car in the centre. Numbered 8567T, this carries LUL livery of white with a blue skirt and red stripe but lacks the normal roundel on the bonnet, and the side lettering is on a removable label. Furthermore the frontal design is markedly different from other recent Prius deliveries, while the rear end has a slightly flatter roofline and a kick-up on the windowline. This reveals that this is in fact a Prius+, the station-wagon variant. All Prius cars are technically hatchbacks but the Prius+ has three rows of seats and is in essence an estate. The original Prius has two rows of seats and looks like a saloon car. It seems likely that 8567T had just replaced un-numbered Ford Mondeo estate LT63WXS, which also carried labels (though on a plain white livery), and which was in the works car park that day.

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