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Details: The German make of BMW has not featured on LTSV before. There have been a couple of examples that we knew about, but these were all unmarked company cars used by management, which I have a policy of not listing. They do appear in photos sometimes, such as a Stagecoach example with a Routemaster registration, seen at Bow Garage in 2008. Ray noted a couple of unmarked white BMWs in use as crew ferries from Arriva's Dartford Garage in Autumn 2020. I chose to ignore these, as it seemed likely that they actually belonged to members of staff. However, on 19th May 2021 he noted a further pair of similar cars at Bexleyheath bus stand. The fact that they were almost consecutively registered (as YB21LNV and YB21LOA) suggested that they were in fact company vehicles, albeit most likely hired rather than leased or owned. It also appears that the two 20-registered white BMWs were returned at about the same time as the new cars arrived. Both the new cars were BMW 216D models to a 'Sport' specification, not the sort of vehicle you would expect to be taken for crew ferry work. YB21LNV was photographed leaving the stand, with part of YB21LOA visible parked on the left. The former is registered by the DVLA as being black, while the latter as grey, though both look to be the same in the photos seen.

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