Sovereign 707 (M107 CCD) at Aston - 17 Sep 2001

Monday 17 September 2001 (approx 0800) - Sovereign Bus and Coach Company Limited 107 (M107 CCD) seen on the car park of the Rose and Crown pub in Aston working school service 889 to the Buntingford schools. Sworder’s Coaches had operated this contract for a number of years up to 2001. It was a Plaxton Interurban bodied Dennis Javelin that had been new to Stagecoach owned Sussex Coastline in January 1995. The Interurban was based on the Premiere model and was bought by the Stagecoach Group for operation on longer distance stage carriage services that had previously been operated with dual purpose vehicles.

This has been a well-travelled vehicle and courtesy of ‘CWG43’ on another photo hosting website the details of subsequent operators and registration transfers are as follows:

March 1996 moved to Devon General (Stagecoach Group)

October 1996 moved to Red and White (Stagecoach Group)

March 2001 moved to Burnley and Pendle (Stagecoach Group)

In April 2001 Burnley and Pendle was acquired by Blazefield and so it entered Blazefield Group ownership

August 2001 moved to Sovereign Bus and Coach (Blazefield Group)

Mid 2004 sold to Rapson Coaches, Orkney (re-registered 520 PXR)

Around May 2008 Rapson’s was acquired by Stagecoach so it thus returned to Stagecoach ownership

In December 2009 (having reverted to M107 CCD) it was sold via Shropshire Bus and Coach to Windy Corner Coaches of Pencader (re-registered IIG 1495 (IIG = India India Golf rather than Eleven Golf) approx. September 2010).

In January 2014 it was sold to Daughton Bus Hire of Lixnaw, County Kerry, Ireland becoming 95 KY 10023 then later sold to Limerick Coach Hire of Cappavilla in early 2015