| The model
- this is one of two versions of the new 1/43 scale 11-metre Leyland Olympian casting announced by 80M Bus
Model Shop in late March 2025. The other features LM7 in CMB Hotline
livery (CMB14302). Both were released on 6th April 2025.
The bus
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LM5 was one of a batch of ten - CMB's last non-air conditioned buses. These
ten vehicles entered service during December 1993. All ten vehicles were
transferred to New World First Bus in September 1998, however, as part
of that Company's policy of withdrawal of non air-con buses, the whole
batch was withdrawn early in 2000. In July 2000, the batch arrived back in
the UK, having been completely refurbished, repainted and converted to
single door, for operation by First PMT. They were subsequently transferred
to First Manchester, operating mainly on route 17 from Manchester Arndale
Centre to Rochdale.
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