https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/ other things now fully reprayed and looking bold is our garage van. we run a commercial vehicle garage and recovery service so most of its time will be spent on those duties https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=156075428 156075428 https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=156075429 156075429 A new Leyland National for us. Saved from the great scrapheap in the sky. We will cut the center door out and make it shorter then do all the neccasary conversions to convert it into a wrecker for our firm. Another large project. But we love'em https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=118239550 118239550 https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=118240300 118240300 rear of the first stage of our Nationals conversion https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=118240820 118240820 This is our Leyland National after it has been cut in half and had it center door taken out and the rear part of the roof taken off https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=118240649 118240649 this was the second stage of our National conversion you can see we have fitted its steel structual reinforcement for the rear where the crane will sit, we have also fitted some toolboxes and steps to get out from the cabin. https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=118240904 118240904 This is the third stage to the conversion, We have fitted the rear of the cabin with a door and windows in our companies green livery to match the rest of the vehicle when resprayed. https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=118241308 118241308 This is the crane we have fitted to our National it just needs a hook fitted and the rest of the vehicle put together to be ready for service. https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=118241013 118241013 All put together succesfully and now in operation. just needs a respray. very proud of the outcome but not quite sure how much weight the crane will take as it doesnt sit above the rear axles. https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=122550908 122550908 An Ex Stagecoach Leyland National arriving at our depot to be used for spares for our vintage fleet. https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=118239760 118239760 https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=118240139 118240139 Here is our new Mercedes 814D Vario acquired from Premiere Holidays still in previous owners livery, it has a coach style door, no rear window and no destination display. it will be repainted shortly and some destination displays fitted ready for service. https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=117218956 117218956 Also a new vehicle to us is this Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer also acquired from Premiere Holidays. We have recently won a Tesco contract so this bus will be used on that service once we do a bit of work to it. https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=117219101 117219101 Here are our 2 new vehiclesfrom Premiere holdays being prepaired for service. https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=117219446 117219446 We bought 2 tri axled leyland olympians one was slightly newer than the one we see here. We only want to use one so we have been testing the pair and found that suprisingly that the older one is best for us. once repainted it will be used on the coach side operating a school service which normally requires two coaches it will then make both coaches redundent for a while. https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=122550759 122550759 here are our 2 new Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointers acquired from Aldenham PSV both in previous owners livery. sitting in the depot patientley awaiting a new livery and to go back out on the road once more. https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=117218404 117218404 Smiths construction of Gloucester are one of many commercial vehicle companies which have a contract with us for maintining the fleet of vans and lorries. demonstarted here is one of there transits at our depot after being reapaired with cluthch issues. https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=122550762 122550762 another patient at our garage this time a bus. it is a citysightseeing bus from Edingbrough being moved to its bath operations and on route stopped off at our deopt for a service and to have the old fleetnames and decals removed ready for the new ones. https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=122550764 122550764 following a new garage service we now respray stagecoach west vehicles . Here we can see a Gloucester based Dennis Trident Alx 400 sitting in our garage. this vehicle is undergoing some bodywork issues before we respray it. https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=126999711 126999711 for Stagecoach Stroud https://fivevalleysbuses.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=171576469 171576469