seen near Bolton on the Christmas lunch 2005 © C. Fenner

Notes:

For 1964 Plaxton replaced Harrington as the preferred supplier of new coaches having just been listed on the list of approved suppliers to the BET group of which Ribble was part. Thirty five of these Plaxton Panorama bodied Leopards were ordered - 10 for Standerwick, 4 for Scout and 21 for Ribble. These were the first vehicles that Ribble had ordered for Standerwick and Scout, and the first vehicles to be numbered with the S prefix or suffix. This fleetnumber system only lasted until 1968 when Standerwick vehicles were numbered in the 1 - 200 series , 731.S becoming number 4. In March 1974 number 4 was transferred to the Ribble fleet and became Ribble 731 and withdrawn at the end of that year.

731 then passed to Chris Ingleby Coaches of Acomb near York who used the coach for the next 24 years. In 1997 it passed to Andrew & Christine Rawnsley for preservation and they very kindly donated it to the Trust for continued preservation in February 2005. In September of that year we took it to the Showbus rally at Duxford.