Buses, coaches, & lorries

Froggy55:
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Found this on a French forum. This one was registered in Nottingham in 1974, but were they common? I had never seen one before.

Just over 1000 and built at Volvo’s plant in Irvine. Popular in Scotland and Indonesia with some sales to the PTE’s of West Midlands, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, small batches to Tyneside and Greater Manchester. Also taken by Maidstone & District, Cardiff and Derby Corporations and smaller operators particularly in Ayrshire. TOE527N was the first production model following on from demonstrator THS273M.