VEHICLE REG TUP 857, FLEETNUMBER 2

DESTINATION-CHURCH STREET

The Hartlepool Corporation began serving the two boroughs of Hartlepool and West Hartlepool in 1952. The Corporation’s licence required them to provide half the buses needed to operate the service between the two towns. This presented a problem, since the Corporation did not own any buses! An agreement was reached with Bee Line Roadways, a local coach operator which ran the service on the Corporation’s behalf and garaged their fleet from August 1953. By 1956 this fleet was ageing and was replaced by four AEC Regent Vs as seen here. The Hartlepool Corporation’s fourteen year existence was brought to an end in 1967 when the bus fleets of the two boroughs were merged

Every model in The Original Omnibus Company is recreated in 1:76 scale and includes a numbered, Limited Edition certificate.  The range includes both modern and classic buses and coaches from some of the best known British manufactures and operators.

THIS MODEL IS BOXED IN MINT CONDITION.