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identity of each bus is as yet unknown. PO 07A was seen in 5/04 carrying the Harry Potter film ‘The Prisoner of
Azkaban’’ promotion livery.
Muzeum Motoryzacji, Otrebusy: this motor museum has a large collection of cars, commercials, military vehicles etc.
The buses are used for promotional hires etc and are normally painted red. The Bristol VR is a low height model and
was painted all over red. The Bristol KSW was refurbished and had a door added to its’ open platform. It would appear
that the Polish plates seem to be interchanged between the buses.
Pietrucha, Błaskie : This bus was superbly converted into a hospitality unit by a company in Gdansk for Pietrucha, a
company manufacturing windows etc. It was repainted red externally and has fully glazed jacknife doors across the
platform..
Skrzelńiski, Warszawa: is a motor vehicle collector and has an extensive collection of cars etc. The buses are used for
promotional hires. HLX 326 was placed on a long term loan to Korona, a plastic replacement windows manufacturer in
xxxx, and carried a yellow/blue livery. Note that both GBE 146 & HLX 326 both carried WUG 1950 plates at the same
time !
Target School of English: PAG 809A was supplied by Brakell, Cheam(Q) to Auto Hobby, Warszawa for use by the
school.
Van Pur, Rzeszów: This brewery used the bus in a red/white livery as a hospitality unit throughout Poland until late
1999 when it was decided to use it in a more static role.
YES, Rzeszów City: This RM carries Union Jack on red livery. It appeared to have suffered minor vandalism when
seen in 7/05.
Wlodarczyk Electronics, Warszawa: it seems likely that DNG 401C carried Polish registration PZB 592B for a while but
it regained it UK plates subsequently.
Unknown. Unknown: The Bristol KSW appeared to have been in a grey or white livery prior to acquisition by Muzeum
Motorzacji.
Heuliez GX77H
Up to the 1970s, Heuliez built mostly small-capacity vehicles although it did body Citroën chassis for, in particular,
Transports Citroën although that market disappeared when the business was sold to the Verney group as CFIT.
It gave Mercedes an outlet in the French urban market by bodying O305 and O305G underframes, which made
them more acceptable in a sector which was subject to considerable political pressure. After the agreement with
Mercedes expired, Heuliez began to build on Renault PR100 and PR180 underframes, producing the GX107 and
GX187. The low-floor market was addressed in collaboration with both Renault and Volvo, the former supplying
the Citybus underframe (which also appears in e.g. the Spanish market and is in effect an unbodied Agora S) for
the GX317 model, and the latter the B10L and B10LA chassis for the GX217 and GX417.
Although the GX107, GX187 and GX317 (and some late O305/O305G) had the Heuliez VJ1 prefix to their VINs,
rather than VF6, VNE or WDB, we have always regarded these as Renault, Irisbus and Mercedes products
respectively because the rest of the VIN fits into the mainstream series of these manufacturers. The GX77H was
the first bus that could truly be described as a complete Heuliez product, although it too has its origins elsewhere.
It began life as the CBM 220, and became the Renault R212 when CBM ceased bus production in the 1980s.
Renault had bought the rights to the model as it did not wish foreign manufacturers to get a toehold in the French
market, even in a comparatively small sector, but the annual production was too small for RVI to produce the bus
economically. Heuliez was contracted to build the bodywork and assemble the complete vehicles. When Renault
decided that the model was unviable, the company bought the rights to the design. The GX77H was reengineered
and received a restyled, rather boxier body than its predecessor. It did, however, retain the front and
rear door layout from the 220/R212, which in turn could be traced back to the CBM TDU850, and even earlier to
Verney’s RU model of the early 1960s. It was replaced by the rear-engined GX117 in 1998.
This list has been compiled by Malcolm Tranter, and is presented in Heuliez body number order (58200xxx),
since the VIN sequence is interrupted by some strange and unexplained numbers in places. Some buses
(especially those apparently delivered out of sequence) may have initially served as Heuliez demonstrators.
Details that have not been confirmed are shown in italics.
VJ1GX77HORT100001 58200001 B--D TUSCO, Les Sables d'Olonne 770-01 2418 SV 85 7/91
VJ1GX77HORT100002 58200002 B--D RTM, Marseille 251 4697 QB 13 1/91
VJ1GX77HORT100003 58200003 B--D RTM, Marseille 252 1142 QD 13 3/91
VJ1GX77HORT100004 58200004 B--D RTM, Marseille 253 4695 QD 13 1/91
VJ1GX77HORT100005 58200005 B--D RTM, Marseille 254 4655 QD 13 1/91
VJ1GX77HORT100006 58200006 B--D RTM, Marseille 255 4646 QB 13 1/91
VJ1GX77HORT100007 58200007 B--D RTM, Marseille 256 4642 QB 13 1/91
VJ1GX77HORT100008 58200008 B--D RTM, Marseille 257 4712 QB 13 1/91
VJ1GX77HORT100009 58200009 B--D RTM, Marseille 258 4708 QB 13 1/91
VJ1GX77HORT100010 58200010 B--D RTM, Marseille 259 4705 QB 13 1/91