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Operator: Western National Fleet No: 603
Chassis: Bristol SUS4A Chassis No: 157.007
Body: ECW B30F Body No: 11394

HISTORY

1960 Allocated Fleet Number 2623. Renumbered 603 before entering service
Feb 60 In service with Western National Omnibus Company Limited, Exeter (603) - Based at Totnes
Jul 66 Transferred to Penzance
Nov 69 Transferred to Helston
Mar 72 Out of service with Western National Omnibus Company Limited, Exeter (603)
Jun 72 W Norths (PV) Limited, Sherburn-in-Elmet (dealer)
  Beedon, Rotherham (contractor)
Apr 73 Spurgeon Tabernacle Baptist Church, Elephant & Castle, London
May 85 Still owned by above
Mar 00 Colin Billington, Fifield
2003 Tony Brown (Chelveston Preservation Society)
Dec 06 Brian Ede (Stroud Group)

Status: Preserved as Western National 603

Western National 603
(C) Brian Botley
 
Spurgeon Tabernacle Baptist Church, Elephant & Castle in September 1989
(C) Colin Billington
   
Awaiting restoration by Chelveston Preservation Society
(C) Nigel Adams
 
603 under restoration in 2007
(C) Mike Ede
 
Western National 603 at Bristol Harbourside in May 2006
(C) Gerry Tormey