On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:38:50 +0000, Adrian wrote:

On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:29:19 +0100, Arthur Figgis wrote:

How ancient is this bus?

http://www.wisbechstandard.co.uk/polopoly_fs/
hpt_16_farage_5697_1_2014604!
image/3608114369.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_490/3608114369.jpg or
http://snipurl.com/26ttejs

Not an ancient as it looks at first glance? Googling the registration
doesn't find anything.

Something looks odd. Is it less than full size?

Almost certainly.

The plate appears to be 78x OVL, with the obscured digit being either a
5 or a 6. But the obscured digit is in the centre of the plate - which
it wouldn't be for a six digit plate, so it must be seven - there's
almost certainly a character behind his leg. Four numbers, three letters
was never mainland UK issued - so it's either an NI plate or it's a
post-83 year prefix letter, which'd make it one of the modern
repro-retro buses, and therefore almost certainly a Q plate. Q785 OVL is
on a 1987 "Lion Omnibus".

Q785 OVL it is..

http://tinyurl.com/******sbus

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Mike P