This is one of the vehicles taking part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.
It's a 1951 Leyland Olympic HR40, one of ten that were bought for the Isle of Man Road Services fleet in 1950/51 and has a Weymann B40F body. It was withdrawn from service in 1973 with the new owners intending to convert it into a motor home, but this never happened and it was stored until 1984 when it was bought by the Merseyside Transport Trust and moved to the UK mainland. As with so many of the vehicles that I've photographed at these Rallies there's no note about it in the programme of the event, but I've found that it was acquired by the Jurby Transport Museum in 2009 and shipped back to the Isle of Man.
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