Skills Coaches K885 JNU at Ferrybridge - 10 Aug 1994 (234-27)

Wednesday 10 August 1994 (approx. 1100) – Skills Coaches of Nottingham 85 (K885 JNU), a Jonckheere Deauville bodied Mercedes-Benz OH1628L new in April 1993, seen at Ferrybridge Service Area. It is lettered for Eurolines, the European scheduled express coach network, although today it was operating a tour to ‘Northumberland Coast and Bamburgh Castle’.

(These are quotes from the ‘Bus Wiki’ website regarding this Mercedes-Benz model:
‘The Mercedes-Benz OH series was a series of models of rear-engined high-floor buses produced by Mercedes-Benz between 1992 and 1998. Two variants, the OH1628L and later OH1416, were built specifically for the UK market, but neither sold well in their target country’.
‘The unpopular Mercedes-Benz OH1628L coach was produced from 1992 through to 1993. The short production run was due to the chassis’ poor sales, only ten were sold. The OH1628L was a variant of the Mercedes-Benz OH chassis which saw more success globally. The OH1628L was only ever available with Jonckheere Deauville bodies. Conway of Limerick received the first OH1628L, 92LK1451 in April 1992; the last, K885 JNU, went to Skills of Nottingham in April 1993, after a production run of exactly one year’).