leyland olympian

 31378-80 L166-8UNS

On 2nd June 2004 First Wyvern acquired the first of a number of "new" double deck vehicles (L167UNS) from First Glasgow. The vehicles have a Leyland Olympian chassis with a Alexander body and will once prepared for service enter service at a number of Garages for use on school services as a way of reducing the company peak vehicle requirement. The first vehicle was joined by a second L166UNS on 5th June 2004. 31379 (L167UNS) entered service at Worcester garage on Monday 7th June 2004 after the half term school holiday as a replacement vehicle for the service S40 following the return of F83XBD to First Northampton. L167UNS entered service at Evesham Garage for use on the 535 school service from Stratford to Alcester Schools (Alcester High School and St Benedict's Roman Catholic High School). This Warwickshire County Council contracted service was originally designed for the use of one single deck vehicle. However usage was such that the service had been duplicated using Mercedes Vario S523RWP (52523) which had been reallocated from Worcester Garage for this purpose. 52523 did find its way onto other routes such as the 247 to/from Redditch. Both L166UNS and L167ULS had seen around one months service at First Northampton prior to their arrival at Worcester in August and September 2004 respectively. For the start of the new school year in September 2004 a third vehicle L168UNS from the First  Glasgow entered service at Evesham Garage. This vehicle had moved south to sister company First Northampton with it's two sister vehicles during the summer. L168UNS actually arrived at Evesham via First Leicester where it may have seen service.