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Colin Lloyd
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4761F P729TTG

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07/04/2020

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Details: Digital cameras were in their infancy in 2000, so all of the images used in today's batch are based on scans of prints from film cameras. Some of the scans are not of brilliant quality, as it is often hard to get sufficient contrast from prints. I have left this photo uncropped, partly because the quality is not great, but also because the surrounding vehicles are of some interest. The main subject is Ford Escort van 4761F, seen waiting at the traffic lights at the bottom of Parliament Street on 21st September 2000 (ah, at last a photo actually taken in the year 2000!). New in June 1997 and used until October 2001, this van was allocated to Distribution Services, and hence carried the 'Support services' lettering as opposed to 'Engineering services'. As an aside, LUL seemed to have a corporate style of always using sentence case for vehicle lettering. This included examples such as 'Emergency response unit'. Title case seems more natural, as featured in the 'Operating Services' lettering on the LTB/LBSL vans. The Escort was the most numerous 'small' van in the central fleet in 2000, with 42 examples all in the leased fleet. Dual-souring was being practiced in this class of vehicle, and there were also 14 Vauxhall Astra vans and 16 Vauxhall Combos. Behind 4761F is a Mercedes-Benz T1 van, of the type mentioned earlier today, while the posh Range Rover alongside is somewhat timeless. Behind that is an Arriva London RM bus, the operator squeezing the fleetname onto the white band at the front. It never occurred to me before how little plain bodywork there was on the front of the Routemaster. Behind that are a pair of Northern Counties bodied Olympians, most likely Stagecoach examples on the long route 53.

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