Sunday 14 October 2007

DL929 (929GTA) "Sir Richard Grenville"


New to Devon General in 1961 as DL929 “Sir Richard Grenville” and served with them until passing to Devon General Ltd. Upon deregulation in Jan 1983.
Withdrawn later that year, it was sold to Lincolnshire Road Car. They allocated it fleet number 2354 and named it “The Sherwood Forester”. They also re-registered it AFE388A (a Lincolnshire mark), its original mark passing to a Leyland Tiger.
It was used for special services in the Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. However, when redundant in this capacity, it found itself allocated to Skegness working alongside sister 2353 (formerly 928). It served LRC until 1987. I have no information regarding it after this time so presume it has been scrapped.


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