Parent to the Windsor operation is RATP's Bath Bus Company, abbreviated BBC. The Bath sightseeing operation is a high profile one and environmentally friendly vehicles help to keep the city authorities happy. Two Euro 6 Volvo B5TL Unvi bodied open toppers joined the operation in 2015. The buses are dual door to help reduce pollution by shortening dwell time at stops. This is 701 (WA14OGE) passing Bath Station in August when still very new. The 2014 registration is deceptive as BBC objected to the Birmingham B prefix plates issued originally as new regulations insist that buses are registered where built and Volvo's UK offices are in Coventry which comes under the B plate region. The two buses were thus re-registered with West of England W plates.
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The second bus - showing off its extra doors - is seen in the city centre on the same day, 702 (WA14OFV).
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The prematurely decapitated MCV bodied Volvo B9TL seen earlier with BBC in Windsor was at work in Bath in August 2019.
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A nearside view of 701 was captured on the same day.
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