Whippet Coaches M589 SDC in Thetford – 29 May 1995 (269-9)

Bank Holiday Monday 29 May 1995 (1605) – A new Sunday (and Bank Holiday Monday) service 200 commenced operation on 28 May 1995 linking Cambridge with Diss and Great Yarmouth.

Whippet Coaches was one of the contracted operators and their M589 SDC seen in Thetford bus station when working the 1535 service from Mildenhall to Diss.

This unusual vehicle was an Omni low floor model which was mainly sold to the welfare market built by CVE (City Vehicle Engineering) of Shildon, County Durham from 1988 under licence from the Steyr of Austria. By the early 1990s CVE was in financial difficulties and was first restructured as the Omni Bus Company and again as the Omni Coach Company. The latter was the builder of this vehicle, one of a pair new to Whippet in January 1995.