Welcome to FATE.

This part of the website details the fate or current status (where known) of all buses new to WYPTE and Yorkshire Rider, and the non-halfcabs on its constituents, not to mention some vehicles acquired second-hand.

For our list of the status of all WYPTE vehicles with most survivors identified, click here for the fate MS Excel file. This will open in Excel - if your computer prompts you to download it, choose desktop (or a location of your choice), then once it has saved, double-click to open. If you do not have MS Excel on your PC, then an excellent free spreadsheet program available, called Open Office dot Org which I can personally recommend.

There is bad news and good news to be seen on this, for example a few Leeds Atlanteans (inc one Weymann PDR1/1, one Roe PDR2/1 and a few of the AN68/2R Leeds jumbo "Tommy Lord Box" examples like 591) survive in some form, one WYPTE national is around, some coaches survive as do some minibuses, there are a few Olympians still in service (in Yorkshire and elsewhere, including 5001 and 5002 in Chester), there are also quite a few WYPTE Roe bodied Atlanteans and Fleetlines in preservation. One of the mark 1 metrobuses in in preservation, and another was still in service until recently. Two of the Alexander bodied metrobuses survive, however there are believed to be no mark 2 metrobuses left in existance in this country (but 7604 and 7605 were exported to Sri Lanka as part of the Asia Bus Response and can be glimpsed in this picture (clue: purple internal window surrounds)). To numerically go to the end of the WYPTE fleet, two Leyland Leopard dual purpose vehicles, 8501 and 8534, survive in preservation. However, without wanting to dwell on it, there is bad news. The worst news is probably that the dual purpose Duple Dominant bodied Tigers are now believed extinct, with the last survivors 1662 and 1671 now being finally cut in Hardwick's yard, Barnsley. It appears though there are no surviving MCW MetroRiders and the same is true of the Iveco minibuses (unless you know differently). No MCW Atlanteans (as delivered to Leeds or Bradford) survive and the later MCW product the Scania Metropolitan is also extinct, as the once preserved 2612 was cut up in Barnsley some years ago. The unique Volvo Ailsa 3480 was also cut up for spares by Derby. Also bad news is that none of the Northern Counties bodied Fleetlines (delivered to WYPTE) survive to our knowledge.

Issues where we need help

Below, is reproduced a list of vehicles where we cannot find the DVLA record. This suggests they were withdrawn prior to being included on the DVLA computer (early 1980s) or, more likely, that they have been re-registered (especially the coaches):

Does anyone know where these vehicles are now, or what they have been re-registered to? The metropolitans are believed all gone (probably withdrawn before being created on the DVLA database) but I suspect a lot of the coaches will still exist, after several re-registrations.

If anyone can add to/correct the above, I would be most interested to hear from you. In particular, if the ones where we only have a "many years ago" reference can be discounted with a confirmed report of scrapped, then that would be good to know also. I intend to create a similar list to the above for Bradford and Huddersfield over time.

Requests

I am also looking to do more work on the FATE spreadsheet - does anyone want to help? I would particularly like to include all One-Man-Operated/Rear Engined Vehicles operated by Leeds/Bradford/Halifax/Huddersfield/Todmorden, and all the minibuses operated by Yorkshire Rider in the 1980s/1990s. Please Contact Us if you'd like to help. All that is needed is access to http://www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk website.

Does anyone have a list of the various ancilliary vehicles to serve WYPTE/Yorkshire Rider over the years? I am particularly trying to find out details of the towtrucks and the land rover vehicles used by Rider.

Regarding the 6001-6191 batch of Atlanteans, does anyone have a definitive list of what was delivered with which moquette (upper and lower). Downstairs there was (apparently) a green moquette (like on the Metropolitans) then two different versions of yellow/orange moquette and then the London style rectangles (yellow/orange/brown/black) whilst upstairs was either green or red leatherette.

Also in this batch, can anyone confirm which vehicles were delivered with a large side route number box, and which had the smaller one at roof level? We believe that the changeover is in the 6121-6150 batch, possibly at 6135/6136, but maybe there were some random ones also?

Regarding the Roe Olympians, does anyone know where the change of upstairs seating from brown leatherette to London style rectangle (yellow/orange/brown/black) moquette took place in the delivery order? Around 5120/5125 seems to ring a bell, can anyone confirm? From my own memories, the earlier ones allocated to Leeds (such as 5033, 5035 and 5036 all of which I remember well as my school transport along with 5507/5508) had the brown leatherette, whereas 5143/5144 had moquette upstairs - clarification needed though.

if you can help with any of the above, please do contact us as per the link at the top of this page