Facts about the society's Daimler 112 (UMR112)

Chassis Type - Daimler CVD6       Chassis Number - 19686

Bady Type - Metro Cammell Weymann Orion Highbridge H36/28R

Body Number - M9282

Built 1960        Body Width 7'6"

                   Length 27'

                   Height 14'6"

Engine - Gardner 6LW 8.4 Litre    Engine Number - 128301

Ordered as fleet replacement for pre-war buses

1938 Daimler COG6 Park Royal H28/26R

Entered into the Swindon Corporation Transport fleet in May 1960

Re-engined in October 1972 from CVG6 to CVD6 engine from

86 (MMR886).

Fleet name was changed to Thamesdown Transport on the

1st April 1984.

112 was withdrawn in 1979 as the last rear platform bus in Swindon.

112 passed into preservation in 1980 when bought by the

Swindon Vintage Omnibus Society.

  112 at the Yellow Buses, Bournemouth centenary in 2002