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Vehicle Details
     
Registration Number:
  FVA 854
Chassis Type:
  Albion Valiant CX39N
Chassis Number:
  60315D
Body Type And Seating:
  Duple C33F
Body Number:
  54032
Date New:
  Jun 1950
Original Operator (Fleet Number):
  Hutchison, Overtown

Vehicle History & Additional Information

Albion Valiant CX39N FVA 854 with Duple A-type 33 seat luxury coach body is powered by an Albion EN243 9.9 litre diesel engine through a four speed constant mesh gearbox and an auxiliary overdrive gearbox allowing cruising at over 50 mph.

Delivered in 1950 to Hutchison of Overtown it operated tours for a couple of years. It passed to Tuer, of Penrith, and then returned to Scotland in 1961 to join the Highland Bus Service (John Carmichael), of Glenboig. It was purchased in 1967 by the Albion Vehicle Preservation Trust and currently wears the livery of Western SMT.


Vehicle Photographs

Above: Muirkirk - Cumnock Road , 1999, © Iain MacGregor
 
Above: West Midlands, 2002, © Iain MacGregor
 
Above: Glasgow Museum Of Transport, 10th October 2004, © Colin Anderson
 
Above: SVBM Open Day, Lathalmond, 21st August 2005, © Colin Anderson
 

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