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First Pennine ex-China Motor Bus Olympians

(Photo courtesy: David Ashworth)

This is the ex-CMB/NWFB LM2, which had not entered service when the photograph was taken. You can find that the forced ventilation units remained on the bus. The dashboard has been repainted to gray.

These two photos show their school service in Greater Manchester area. Note the large Yellow First bus blind and the China Motor Bus numbers in the destination equipment. First Manchester provides weekly unlimited travel tickets for its passengers. The stickers on the windscreen promote this scheme.

K481EUX: LM10
K483EUX: LM7

Then they are painted to the "White Barbie" livery and had a change in fleet number in February 2001.

Another livery was applied to the bus in July 2001. It was deployed to Route 17, one of the busiest route in the area.