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Operator: Southern National Fleet No: 1297
Chassis: Bristol LS6G Chassis No: 97.078
Body: ECW C41F Body No: 7084

HISTORY

Sep 53 In service with Southern National Omnibus Company Limited, Exeter (1297)
Jan 61 Converted to C39F. ECW Rebuild No. R768
Nov 69 Transferred to Western National Omnibus Company Limited, Exeter (1297)
Apr 70 Out of service with Western National Omnibus Company Limited, Exeter (1297)
May 70 W Norths (PV) Limtied, Sherburn-in-Elmet (dealer)
Jun 70 In service with J H Woolliscroft & Son Limited, Darley Dale
  Out of service with J H Woolliscroft & Son Limited, Darley Dale
Nov 70 Business Vehicles, York (contractor)
Nov 72 Rushden Bristol Preservation Group
Mar 73 Smith, Burton Latimer
Jun 81 Chelverton Preservation Society, Rusden
<Mar 97 Hughes & Wheble, Hartley
<May 98 S Morris, Taunton
2000 M Leek Collection, Wieringerwerf, Netherlands

Status: Preserved as Southern National 1297

Southern National 1297 in Gloucester Green, Oxford
(C) Webmasters Collection
 
Southern National 1297 in Exeter Coach Station in June 1967
(C) Alan O Watkins