2103
DUP 249B
3087
This vehicle, the first of the second order for 32 buses, was hurriedly registered with an out of sequence number so as to appear at the 1965 Commercial Motor Show in Earl's Court.
This was also the first to appear with new style fleetnames in plain upper case letters, a style that was not pursued for long. It was also the first bus to be fitted with the smaller air intake grill below the front blind box, adopted by London Transport.
Eventually delivered for service in November 1965 and allocated to Chester-le-street depot
Repainted into standard NGT livery in 1969
Recertified in May 1971
Repainted into NBC poppy red livery in July 1973
In January 1975 it was renumbered to 3087
Eventually withdawn in September 1977, dismantled for spares and scrapped by NGT