3003 AH

Operator: Eastern Counties Fleet No: LC556
Chassis: Bristol SC4LK Chassis No: 147.004
Body: ECW B35F Body No: 10131

HISTORY

Jan 59 In service with Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Limited, Norwich (LC556)
1960's Converted to OMO
1970 Out of service with Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Limited, Norwich (LC556)
Oct 70 Ben Jordan, Coltishall (dealer)
Mar 71 A Monk & Company Limited, Warrington (V1869) (contractor)
Mar 74 Martins Bus & Coach Sales, Middlewich (dealer)
Jun 74 Archbishop McIntyre RC High School, Stoke-on-Trent
1980 Re-registered FRE 699A
Aug 80 Margaret Ward RC High School, Tunstall
1986 Peter Hulin, Oxford
1993 Ward Jones, High Wycombe (dealer)
Jul 93 Patrick Burnside, Norwich

Status: Preserved as Eastern Counties LC556

Eastern Counties LC556 at the Old Cattle Market Bus Station, Ipswich in 1966
(C) Patrick Burnside Collection
 
ex Eastern Counties LC556 with Monk, Warrington. c1971
(C) Patrick Burnside Collection
 
ex Eastern Counties LC556 with Archbishop McIntyre RC High School on a field trip to Snowdonia. c1976
(C) Patrick Burnside Collection
 
Eastern Counties LC556 (Right) and Eastern National 438 (Left) at Ward Jones Yard, High Wycombe in June 1993
(C) Patrick Burnside
 
Restoration is well underway with the final undercoat applied. Summer 2003
(C) Patrick Burnside
 
ex Eastern Counties LC556 fully restorated at Flixton Airfield, Suffolk in June 2005
(C) Patrick Burnside

For more details - visit the LC556 web site.