Manufacturers' Codes - The PSV Circle Website

FRANCE 732-OJ-17 FRANCE
Hired vehicles: ex-Fast Concept Cars [Q85]
2074 VV 85 Unic Chardon C--F (new 10/85)
ex-Cars Suzanne, Villeneuve [94]
6301 JS 94 MB O303 WDB30051913040791 MB C--- (new 6/84)
Withdrawals: by 11/00 3043/74/93, 3115-21/62-8/70-4/80/1/8-202, 3325, 3766, 3903-7/9/10 (SC10R)
5074 (R312 - accident)
Disposals: 3644 AMTUIR for preservation, after restoration by RATP
5074 -?-, Argenteuil [Qs95], by 11/00
Further MB 412D, numbered 809/12-6, are believed to have been delivered, along with Agoras 7201-35.
Unfortunately the September/October issue of Réseaux Urbains, our usual source of RATP material, is missing in
the post.
901-4/6-9 are operated by the STL (service gérant les spéciaux, les Services Touristiques et Locations de Bus,
which is RATP's special operations/private hire department), and are based at Les Lilas depot. They were formerly
numbered 3026/161/511/65, 5018/34, 3985/035 while in normal passenger service. The original fleetnumbers
(long since occupied by newer vehicles) are carried on a small plaque inside the passenger area. 909 has only
recently been restored for continued use, an event which prompted our French colleagues to list the other STL
vehicles (it is not known what 905 is/was). STCRP, the body manufacturer, was Société des Transports en
Commun de la Région Parisienne, one of RATP's predecessors.
The secondhand Renault/Carrier, and the hired Unic and O303, are used on school service 575 at Saint-Cloud.
They have been painted white and carry the current RATP logo. The hired vehicles are due to be replaced by two
new midi-sized buses in due course.
The four ex-RCA Tracers have been bought to supplement (or replace?) the FR1s used for the APMCJ (723-OJ-
74) and, according to Réseaux Urbains, they are owned by RATP.
R312s 5019-24/7-36 are due to be converted to training buses (some may have already been dealt with). 5074,
noted above as withdrawn, came off worse after colliding with a concrete pillar supporting the elevated section of
the A4 autoroute.
Département 76 (Seine-Maritime)
Bus Océane (Compagnie de Transport de la Porte Océane - CTPO), Le Havre
Vehicles withdrawn: 12/97 51-5/8, 61/2 (PR100.2); 218-20 (PR180.2); 502/3/6 (GX107)
by 12/98 50/6/7/9, 60/3 (PR100.2); 221 (PR180.2); 500/1/4/5 (GX107)
Disposal: 213 Lavail, Castres [Q81] by 4/00
Correction (726-OJ-125): 584 has body number 7260 2000.
GERMANY
Correction: 720-OJ-18 - DEL - Delmenhorst, and amend all vehicle location details similarly.
General: A change to the regulations relating to the issue of registrations means that it is now permissible for
German registrations to contain the letters I & O as part of the one or two letter serial after the area identified (see
BB-OY 149 below). It is not known whether Q is also used.
Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), Berlin
Fleet list 9/97 (ON 6-97), with updates to ON 1-00
All vehicles registered B-V plus fleet number
1001-10 Au N4014 B--D new -/92
1011-80 MB O405N B--D new -/92
1081-110/2 MB O405N B--T new -/95
1115-53 MAN NL262 B--T new -/97
1154-83 Vo B10L SN12 Steyr B--T new -/97
1184 MB O405N B--T new -/95