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Shark Shoal Shanty Antiques, Powells Point. YRU 70 is parked beside the antiques store with fire engines, boats,
etc., for company. It is in a white colour scheme with pale blue wheels, mudguards and two bands between the
decks.
Smith, Beaufort. Harvey Ward Smith bought NVX 311 from Schwartz & Co (Grain) Ltd., in 1965, for a total cost,
including shipping, of £1133.19s.10d !! The Ocean Bill of Lading definitely lists the owner as Harvey Smith, and
it may well have been imported through the port of Wilmington, NC, where it may have been filmed, giving rise to
earlier claims of ownership by a film company. Harvey Smith was the owner of a successful local fish business;
for many years he ran the bus in Shriners parades and stored it for the rest of the yearin his fish factory. After
Mr. Smith’s death in 1978 his widow gave the bus to the Beaufort Historical Association.
u/k, Greensboro (see OJ1997-203/4). We eventually found the “yard” which turned out to be a grassy area beside
a small old factory unit at 308 Victor Place, Greensboro. The three buses are parked in a row behind one
another and in the shelter of trees beyond. All three had been served with Notices of Violation, on 14/12/99 by
the Authorities, stating that if they were not removed by 21/12/99, they would be towed to a place of storage -
needless to say, they were still present on 28 th August 2000! They have been here at least ten years now and
are rather weather-worn and deserted! All three had been gutted on both decks; HLX 167 and NXP 992 had
been fitted with crude wooden doors to the platforms and the lower decks filled with wheels and seat frames.
LYR 763 did not have any platform door, and the downstairs was filled with seat frames and backs; the centre
panels of its roof had been removed at some stage.
Virginia (VA)
OWNER DATA
OWNERS NEW to CIRCLE RECORDS
Jack BILLINGS Junior, 8336 Lee Highway, RURAL RETREAT, VA 24368 c-/97
BUSCH GARDENS aka ‘The Old Country’ Theme Park, Route 60, WILLIAMSBURG, VA by12/74
CITY OF HAMPTON, HAMPTON, VA c-/69
GOVERNMENT OF VIRGINIA Bicentennial Committee, WILLIAMSBURG, VA c6/76
GREATER LYNCHBURG TRANSIT Company, 1301 Kemper Street, LYNCHBURG, VA 24505-0797 by-/99
MARSHALL EWALD REALTY Co., NORFOLK BEACH, VA by-/86
PIZZA INNS of VIRGINIA Inc., 1220 Westover Hill Boulevard, RICHMOND, VA 23225 by-/90
RED TOP Coach, 1200 N. Hudson Street, ARLINGTON, VA 22201 c-/84
Bill ROWLAND, 525 Walkers Pond Lane, KEYSVILLE, VA 23947 -/82
SEARCH & MATCH, ANNANDALE, VA 2/97
SHERATON RED LION Inn, 900 Plantation Road, BLACKSBURG, VA 24060 by-/90
TOWN OF ABINGDON, 133 W. Main Street, ABINGDON, VA 24210 c-/80
WILEY & WILSON, 2310 Langhorne Road, LYNCHBURG, VA 24501 by-/90
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION for Operators already known to Circle Records
HOLIDAY TRANSPORT, Beach Texaco, 705 22 nd Street, VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 23485 by1/72
OWNERS CEASED
Atlantic National Advertising Agency, -?-, VA c-/69
Busch Gardens, Williamsburg c-/77
City of Hampton, Hampton by12/76
Government of Virginia, Williamsburg by12/76
Holiday Inn West, Richmond by-/90
Holiday Transport, Virginia Beach by12/80
Marshall Ewald Realty, Norfolk Beach by12/99
Pizza Inns of Virginia, Richmond by-/90
Red Top, Arlington by3/93
Search & Match, Annandale c6/98
Sheraton Red Lion, Blacksburg c-/92
Town of Abingdon, Abingdon c11/00
Wiley & Wilson, Lynchburg by-/99
General
Re PX3/36, and LYR 763, it is believed that Atlantic National Advertising Agency, -?-, VA, may have been the
body sourcing the bus for the City of Hampton, LYR 763’s next operator.
Re PX3/36, and MXX 268, Department of Commerce, Hampton, are believed to have been acquiring MXX 268
on behalf of the City’s transport department, so we will record as City of Hampton, Hampton.