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The first open top buses in the United Kingdom were regular double deck buses, but these were later replaced by buses with enclosed top decks. [clarification needed] One of the first operators to provide open top buses for its seaside routes was Brighton, Hove & District in 1936. [1] While most operators rebuilt old vehicles for such services ...
A semi-open top sightseeing bus in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Modern open top bus designs are available, nowadays with long multiple axle and low floor easy access features as seen on conventional closed-top buses. Many more have been converted from conventional buses which were no longer required for regular service and so may not have such features.
Two generations of open top bus in Torbay. Stagecoach Devon Scania 15329 John Hayes (left) and Devon General "Sea Dog" Atlantean 925 Admiral Blake. Devon General first operated open top buses in Torbay in 1919 but reintroduced open top buses on tourist routes in 1955. New buses were introduced in 1961 which were known as 'Sea Dogs' because of ...
Badgerline Leyland Olympians 8613 in Badgerline livery and 8609 in Cheddar Showcaves advertising livery in 1995. On 13 May 1902, the Weston-super-Mare Tramways opened a tramway along the sea front from the Sanatorium at the south end of the Beach Lawns (today the site of Royal Sands) to the Old Pier, using a mixture of double-deck open top tram cars and open-sided "toast rack" single-deck cars ...
The East Kent Road Car Company Ltd is a bus company formed in 1916 and based in Canterbury, Kent. The company operated bus and coach services in Kent. In 1993 it was one of the first companies to be acquired by the Stagecoach Group , which eventually rebranded the operation as Stagecoach in East Kent , and made it part of the Stagecoach South ...
In the RoadCar era, open-top Roadcar buses in Skegness were originally branded as 'The Open Topper', and consisted of various Leyland buses, before being replaced by MCW Metrobuses in 2004. Originally, the buses wore a livery of white, yellow and blue, similar in design to RoadCar's standard fleet livery, but in 1997, the open top livery was ...
The Optare Visionaire (introduced in 2006 as the East Lancs Visionaire, and branded the Darwen Visionaire between 2007 and 2008) is an open top double-decker bus body built by Optare. It is in terms of engineering an open top Olympus (itself a double-decker variant of the Esteem ) in all but name.
The regular vehicle for many years was an East Lancashire bodied Scania N94UD open top bus. After the 2012 season this was sold and replaced with a single-deck open top Alexander PS bodied Volvo B10M. [10] The service ceased operating in September 2014, [11] but returned the following summer using heritage (not necessarily open top) buses. [12 ...