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Details: London Transport built up a large fleet of Daimler/Leyland Fleetline buses during the 1970s, a total of 2646 being taken into stock. Most had relatively short lives in the capital and were outlived by the buses they were intended to replace. Perhaps surprisingly, very few Fleetlines became service vehicles, although a large number were used as driver training vehicles. Of the three conversions known, DMS2559 became a mobile survey control centre in 1983. It was apparently repainted (at Loughton Garage), though details of its livery, and indeed its use, are not known. It was reported as sold in 1992 and seems to have eventually passed to a youth community group in Essex. It was photographed in Rochford in June 2001 in a hand-painted livery typical of such vehicles. Last licensed in 2002, it was not listed in the LOTS SUP44A publication of 2008, suggesting that it had by then been scrapped.

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