Sandwiched between Thamesway's 2000th Dart ever built and a First Midland Red Merc is the real VR,
BlueBus 31 on which EFE's Showbus promotional model was based for the 1998 EFE Showbus Rally.
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Former Yarmouth 57 (G457KNG) is an early Duple bodied Dennis Dart which passed
to First's BlueBus division with the rest of the fleet. Seen at Millennium Showbus
in the short lived yellow/blue variant of the First Essex colour scheme, 57 is next to
a Marshall bodied Dart for London mobility services. Marshall obtained
the rights to the design which passed to MCV via Carlyle and then Marshall. The Duple heritage
can even be seen in the 2004 designs of MCV.
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Dual purpose seated BlueBus East Lancs bodied Dart 419 (K62KEX) was Yarmouth 62.
It is seen at EFE SHOWBUS International 2001 alongside a Provincial Leyland National.
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A former Scottish Scania/Irizar was alongside, seemingly in BlueBus colours, but actually
with eastern Counties and still in the remnants of Citylink livery.
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