Nottingham City Transport 382 (F382 GVO) at RAF Mildenhall – 26 May 1991 (142-03A)

Sunday 26 May 1991 – Nottingham City Transport 382 (F382 GV0), an East Lancs bodied Leyland-DAB Lion, new in January 1989 seen at RAF Mildenhall attending the annual Air Fete.

The Lion was built in Denmark. In 1986 NCT bought three Northern Counties bodied Lions (numbered 392-394) followed by a further ten bodied by East Lancs in 1988/1989 (numbered 382-391). The first five of the latter batch were fitted with coach type seating and carried a coach livery as seen here.

In addition to the 13 Lions ordered by NCT there were 19 Alexander bodied examples ordered by the Scottish Bus Group. NCT later acquired five of those which had been operated by Chester City Transport which became Nottingham’s 395-399.