GM Buses North

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RE: GM Buses North
The reason the Lynx's where repanelled was that the body parts where expensive son simple parts where put on from out of the spares bin eg F reg Olympian fronts where taken in from Wigan, standard panelling was fitted on the sides and the skirts removed also the B10B lights where fitted.

They where not the most reliable vehicles as they where unfortunate to be amongst the few with Gardner Engines, they really got restricted to Bolton locals as they where not too far away then from the depot to tow in and seeing them out of Bolton in Salford, Bury or Wigan/Atherton/Leigh was a rarity, they had a spell at Pennine when that was taken over along with batches of standard Lynx's ex-Pmt but some originally new to CentrewWest and Toppings.

Interestingly GM Buses had considered buying 10 with bodies built by Northern Counties as Volvo had declaired an intention at one stage to make it available for building by other bodybuilders but the closure of the Lillyhall Factory at Workington cancelled this out, they would have been MKII examples with the same body style as B10M J461OVU and would probably of ended up being K Plates and certainly the lasdt new buses, new to GM Buses had they gone ahead.