Avon Buses

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An Avon Buses Dennis Dart SLF with Marshall Capital bodywork in New Ferry, Wirral
An Avon Buses Dennis Dart SLF with Marshall Capital bodywork in New Ferry, Wirral

Avon Buses is a bus operating company based in Prenton on the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside, England. [1] The company has an all-single deck fleet of about 38 vehicles as of April 2008, most of them low-floor.

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[edit] Operations

The company operates a number of commercial and tendered local bus services, primarily on the Wirral,[2] including one to Chester. One tendered service is also operated on the opposite side of the Mersey, between Fazakerley and Crosby. School services are also operated.

[edit] Fleet

MCV Evolution in Birkenhead
MCV Evolution in Birkenhead

The bulk of the fleet consists of Dennis Dart SLF and more recently Alexander Dennis Dart 4 chassis with a mixture of bodywork: East Lancs Spryte, Plaxton Pointer, MCV Evolution and Marshall Capital. Other low-floor vehicles are a pair of Volvo B6LE with Wright Crusader bodywork, a Plaxton Primo, and six Dennis Lance SLF with Berkhof bodywork.

Step-entrance vehicles, normally used on school services only, consist of four ex-Cardiff Scania N113 with Alexander Strider bodywork, and three ex-Stagecoach Volvo B6 with Alexander Dash bodywork. [3]

[edit] Livery

All vehicles are painted in a cream and blue livery.

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