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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
<Jan 95 Mark Riedel
<Feb 00 Colin Billington, Fifield
Mar 00 Tony Brown, Rushden (Chelveston Preservation Society)
Dec 06 Brian Ede, Stroud
Jan 12 John Howden, Shobdon

Status: Preserved as Western National 603

    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Depot, Totnes

Date : July 1960

 

(C) P J Relf

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Coinagehall Street, Helston

Date : Not Known

 

(C) Brian Botley

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Station Road, Penzance

Date : September 1966

 

(C) West Country Historic Omnibus & Transport Trust

 
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Not Known

Date : Not Known

 

(C) Brian Botley

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Penzance Bus Station

Date : Not Known

 

(C) Colin Billington Collection

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Not Known

Date : Not Known

 

(C) Webmaster Collection

     
    

Owner : Spurgeon Tabernacle Baptist Church

Location : Elephant & Castle

Date : February 1983

 

(C) Colin Billington Collection

 
    

Owner : Spurgeon Tabernacle Baptist Church

Location : Not Known

Date : September 1989

 

(C) Colin Billington

 
    

Owner : Western National 603 awaiting restoration

Location : Not Known

Date : Not Known

 

(C) Nigel Adams

 
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Not Known

Date : 2007

 

(C) Mike Ede

 
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Harbourside, Bristol

Date : May 2006

 

(C) Gerry Tormey

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Harbourside, Bristol

Date : May 2007

 

(C) Gerry Tormey

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Westpoint, Exeter

Date : September 2006

 

(C) Gerry Tormey

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Weymouth

Date : June 2008

 

(C) Malcolm Audsley

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Harbourside, Bristol

Date : May 2008

 

(C) Gerry Tormey

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Fore Street, Kingsbridge

Date : September 2008

 

(C) Peter Delaney

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Queen Street, Weymouth

Date : June 2009

 

(C) Terry Lawson

 
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : South Cerney Airfield

Date : August 2011

 

(C) Roy Lambeth

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Park & Ride, Brislington

Date : August 2012

 

(C) Terry Lawson

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Brislington

Date : August 2013

 

(C) Chris Stewart

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Kingsbridge Bus Station

Date : September 2013

 

(C) Gerry Tormey

 
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Not Known

Date : August 2015

 

(C) Ken Jones

 
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Station Road, Bewdley

Date : September 2015

 

(C) Ken Jones

 
    

Owner : Western National 600 - 672 COD (left) and Western National 603 (right)

Location : Inner Cove

Date : September 2015

 

(C) David Sheppard

 
    

Owner : Western National 600 - 672 COD, Western National 603 & Bristol Omnibus 301 - 862 RAE

Location : Loddiswell

Date : September 2017

 

(C) Ken Jones

 
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Kingsbridge

Date : September 2017

 

(C) Ken Jones

 
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Newton Abbot Racecourse

Date : August 2019

 

(C) Dave Bickley

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Eardisland

Date : 17 June 2020 (Diamond Jubilee of the Bristol SU entry into service)

 

(C) Ken Jones

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Kingsbridge Bus Station

Date : September 2021

 

(C) Ken Jones

     
    

Owner : Western National 603

Location : Nr Coventry

Date : April 2022

 

(C) Ken Jones