Beamish Open Air Museum

In August 1996 when returning home from a holiday in Scotland we paid a visit to the Beamish Open Air Museum in County Durham and this is one of the photographs I took there.

Apparently it's a replica of a 1913 Daimler motorbus and the Beamish Transport Online website says this about it:

'In 1987 a replica of 1913 Daimler CC motorbus J2503 was delivered to the Museum from its builders.  It was based on one of at least fifteen vehicles supplied to the Gateshead & District Tramways and purchased to extend the Gateshead Tramway network of routes beyond their terminals, in particular at Low Fell.  The extension of this route to Chester-Le-Street was a significant as it shortly led to the establishment of the Northern General Transport Company (NGT) in 1913, who took over the bus operations as a separate subsidiary of the parent company, the British Electric Traction Company.  J2503 initially carried the 1913 livery, being overhauled and turned out in NGT livery in 2012, ahead of the NGT centenary the following year.'