Ex Arriva NW Palatine II's

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RE: Ex Arriva NW Palatine II's

(01/12/2022 19:03)Gillmoss 0324 Wrote:  IIRC V715LWT was registered a few years after it was built and later than the R-CKO's and didn't it have a stint as a exhibition bus for a time too?

Did all the R-CKO's end up at Speke/ANW or were some of them with other Arriva companies, does and doesn't seem a long time ago but got a feeling they all didn't transfer to us after their loan stint with London United in 2002.

Loved the DAF's on the 86 a bit of variety but what's come since are a million times better.

V715LWT was unique in being the only member of the later batch to sport a ZF gearbox, the R-CKO’s being Voith

The R-CKO’s arrived in Late 2003, a few years after the 86 branded N-DWY’s. Most of the batch ended up at Speke, but the remainder went to Kent Thameside later Kent & Sussex, where they remained dual door for a while before a conversion years after the Speke batch