Selnec preservation society

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RE: Selnec preservation society

(07/11/2016 17:05)Dentonian Wrote:  I didn't realise their collection was so big. One or two amongst those may be obvious in terms of attraction (last Olympian, last TN15 Titan) etc, but a couple of others might be worthy of additional info:

7147 was one of just five AN68/NCs amongst the first 500 production SELNEC/GMT "Standards", before that became the preffered combination in 1975.

Iirc, 3225 was the very first "salmon pink" Express bus. Six of these standard seated Olympians were painted pink initially to mainly work the 400 Trans-Lancs Express, before the brand rapidly expanded after De-reg, with coach seated Olympians and Metrobuses - a far cry from today's sub-10 mph running times. It is also worth noting that Tameside operations are totally unrepresented in the Preservation world, with Prototype EX1 (now 46 years old) being easily the youngest preserved bus representing the borough. As well as 3225, Fleetline 8124 was a Tameside bus.

Was GNF15V formerly in the Village group tours of Liverpool fleet? I know they did have a GNF V Manchester Titan but forgotten which one. The restoration of GNF15V would be quite big if someone takes it on as have heard many parts were stripped from it for use in the restoration of Titan ANE2T.