Created 1-Apr-20
Modified 8-Mar-24
149 (F392 DHL) was an isolated purchase in 1996. It was a Mercedes-Benz 709D fitted with a Reeve Burgess B20F body fitted with a wheelchair lift and was new as London Buses DT2 in November 1988. It was one of five similar buses bought on behalf of the London Borough of Ealing and used on the Southall Shuttle. It joined the Rhondda Buses fleet in 1996 via South Lancs Transport and was briefly numbered 392 after arrival before being given the more logical number 149. It was based at Bedwas.
Losing the wheelchair lift about the time of the Stagecoach takeover, it ended its career as a publicity van for Stagecoach Red & White, retaining the number 149 throughout.
© David Beilby
