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This vehicle is part of the Aire Valley Transport Group, and its owner has agreed that it can be displayed on our website due to the vehicles importance. The AVTG are the organisers of the highly successful Bolton Abbey event (in 2007, to be held on Sunday 14th October 2007) that various WYPTE vehicles attend, including each year representatives of the TYPG fleet.

1751 is a very special vehicle. It is the prototype Dormobile bodied Freight Rover Sherpa, and is believed to have started its life as a turquoise-liveried demonstrator, either a Freight Rover chassis cowl or a dormobile non-passenger vehicle.

1751 was registered on 5th June 1985 and was demonstrated to various concerns around the country, before passing to West Yorkshire PTE in September 1986 (the only non-optare Sherpa minibus to do so) and thence to Rider, where it remained unique as the only 20 seat dormobile bodied minibus to have a one track destination blind (with no seperate provision for the route number). It soon received the standard Micro Rider livery, which it retained once it left Yorkshire Rider and passed to the Belle Isle Scout Group prior to its preservation.

1751 has its own gallery on fotopic.

A note on Colour

How close do we think the Green and the Red on this page are to Bright Green and the Red of the Yorkshire Rider fleetname? The background should be spot on Jonquil, which is BS ref 10E49.

However, I do not have BS references for the Bright Green colour. There is a BS4800 series paint called "Bright Green" which is BS ref 14E51 to which the writing here is approximated, however this seems wrong to me.

The BS 4800 series reference numbers for MetroBus and MetroCoach liveries are detailed here and approximations feature as the colours used on the webpages for 1807 and 1705 if you would care to look.

Please contact us via the page above if you can help with the missing information about paint (or anything else).