| I have always listed Ford P100 pick-up truck 3353F as being new in white/blue livery, changed to cream in about 1988 but I think this is incorrect. For a start, the LUL white/blue livery did not appear until 1990. New in January 1986, 3353F was allocated (along with similar 3352F and 3354F) to the LT Builders department at Parsons Green. The other two trucks were in red livery and there was no mention at the time of 3353F being different. What is certain is that in early 1988 it was transferred to the new Bexleybus operation at Bexleyheath and gained appropriate blue lettering on a cream base livery. The repaint was very thorough and included the re-application of a P100 transfer, but no fleetnumber. It was photographed passing through Woolwich on 28th March 1988. 3353F was one of just six of the original P100 model (which featured the front half of a Ford Cortina) operated by LT. The later, Ford Sierra-based P100 was slightly more successful, with 17 being leased between 1988 and 1997. Among these was 3806F, which replaced 3353F at Bexleyheath, though the special livery had by then been abandoned. By co-incidence, the other service vehicle in Bexleybus livery (Astra van 3366B) also started out with LT Builders. |
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28/03/1988 |
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27/12/2016 |
