First Eastern Counties Buses 372 (LDZ 9119) in Bury St. Edmunds – Nov 2000

Saturday x November 2000 – First Eastern Counties Buses 372 (LDZ 9119) seen in St. Andrew’s Street North, Bury St. Edmunds. The car park site behind is where the Apex Centre and Arc Shopping Centre were later built.

A Wright Handybus bodied Dennis Dart that had been new to the Centrebus operation of London Buses in May 1992 as their DW119. It was latterly operated by and transferred from Bee Line (The Berks Bucks Bus Company) and still retained their livery. There were 170 of the DW class in the Centrebus fleet which, like Eastern Counties, later became part of First Group. As a result Eastern Counties inherited quite a number of different types of vehicles transferred from other First Group affiliates. A feature of the Handybus model when new, whether in split screen or single screen format, was the use of black paint in the indented area surrounding the destination display and below the windscreen. This made for quite a different visual effect from that seen on this bus