Foreign stay for ex-Leicester Daimler

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The Daimler was exported after a varied career in Leicester, the North East, on the South Coast and in London. LTHT/SVEN TIERMAN

The Leicester Transport Heritage Trust has revealed pictures of former Leicester City Transport Daimler CSG6 UJF 182, which still survives near the city of Arezzo in Tuscany. Recent photos show the bus parked in a field, looking faded but relatively intact.

One of a batch of six Daimler CS6G/30 chassis that were bought for evaluation purposes by the operator in 1959, with Gardner 6LW engines and a David Brown gearbox, the bus has standard Metro-Cammell Orion bodywork.

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