This batch of Optare Prismas from Leicester showed very well what a mess First made of their national numbering system as they formed nine out of a block of ten consecutive registrations, yet the fleetnumbers were 61149-51, 61247-51 and 62115. 61248 joined the Manchester fleet at the end of 2002 and is entering Uppermill on a rather damp day.

Photograph courtesy of Mark Amis.