WYPTE 1751
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- Freight Rover Sherpa
- Dormobile body
- Engine spec
- Gearbox spec
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 vehicle's importance. The AVTG are the organisers of the highly successful Bolton Abbey event that various WYPTE vehicles regularly attend each year, including representatives of the TYPG fleet.
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1751 pictured with restoration in progress
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 5 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 Yorkshire 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.
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