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Hants and Dorset and the associated Wilts and Dorset bus company dominated the rural areas of South Central England throughout the 20th Century. Both companies were State-owned, so the Bristol marque predominated. But there were some surprising additions, notably the still-popular Silver Star of Porton Down.
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13 (HWV 793), a Leyland Royal Tiger with a replacement Harrington body. It replaced the original Leyland coach body wrecked in a road crash. It is seen after it was transferred into the Wilts & Dorset fleet. What a pity this impressive, if ugly, brute didn't survive into preservation. [Alan O. Watkins Colln]
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There are nearly 500 buses and coaches from the Hants & Dorset and Wilts & Dorset fleets in this gallery. It is part of a unique picture record of nearly 40,000 buses and coaches, plus ships, planes and trains, from the Alan O. Watkins Collection that are available for research on the web.
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    VRs (11 images)
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    Pilgrim (2 images)
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    3649 (LPR 937P) [Hampshire Bus] coughs and splutters. It was a Leyland National 11351/1R leyland National built to B49F layout
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