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Details: Leyland National LN13 makes its fifth appearance on LTSV with this photo taken at Garston Garage in February 1989. Taken out of passenger service in 1983, it was re-purposed the following year as a mobile waiting room for coach passengers at Scratchwood Services on the M1. It carried a white livery with two variations of National Holidays lettering, the small version shown here later being replaced by larger titles. It was further repainted in about 1990, to cream with Shearings National lettering (for the same role), and then again to all-over yellow in 1992, when it was sold to Luton and District for use as a driver training bus. According to the Ian's Bus Stop website, it was then sold to London and Country in 1995, assigned fleetnumber A30 and intended for conversion for a youth project. However, this was aborted and it went for scrap later that year. As a curious aside, another company also used a former LN bus as a waiting room at Scratchwood. LN8 had an interesting history and seems to have never actually worked for LCBS. Delivered directly to Nottingham City Transport it was on hire from LCBS for evaluation. Its green livery was adapted with a cream waist band and orange roof. Returned to LCBS in 1973, it was stored for a month then passed to Hants and Dorset in a swap that saw three Nationals exchanged for 3 former King Alfred Metro-Scania single deckers. Initially used in plain NBC green, it was repainted to H&D's standard NBC red with a white waist stripe in about 1975. In 1982 it passed to Alder Valley in another exchange, this time of dual-door Nationals for single-door ones. Alder Valley did not put the bus in service but converted it into a mobile information and publicity bus (ironic, given the similar fate of sister LN7. Indeed the two vehicles appeared together at ShowBus in 1984, as seen here). The livery was white/red/black in the current coach style, changed to 'deregulation' green/yellow in about 1989. In 1992 the bus was sold to holiday firm Club Cantabrica and repainted into their blue and red livery. Used as a waiting room and booking office at Scratchwood Services, it stayed for a few years before being sold into preservation in 1998. It appeared at a few rallies in Cantabrica blue but was then repainted (again) into SuperBus yellow/blue.

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