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The vintage bus seen driving around Chester since June 2005 was built in 1964 as a single-deck Bedford coach for Wessex Coaches in Bristol.
It was re-designed and re-built in the 1982 by E. L. Farrar in St Austell, Cornwall and fitted with the present body, which is a replica of a London General Omnibus Company B-Type motorbus.
There were only 3 built and, therefore, are only 3 in the World! Chester is the proud 'owner' of one of them!
The B-Type, introduced in 1910, was one of the earliest double deck motorbuses built in the world, and was built to replace the remaining horse-drawn buses of the period.
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