East Yorkshire Motor Services - The Fleet

The Fleet

EYMS's fleet is dominated by Volvos, but also features other types, including Mercedes-Benz, Leyland and Dennis.

Amongst the Volvos in the fleet are Volvo Olympians, and Volvo B10Ms. The Olympians have Alexander Royale and Northern Counties Palatine bodies. The B10Ms are either coaches with Plaxton, Van Hool or Berkhof bodies or buses with Alexander PS bodies. Other Volvos are B10M Citybuses, several B7TLs with either Plaxton/TransBus President bodies or Wright Eclipse Gemini bodies, several B9TLs with Wright Eclipse Gemini bodies, ten Volvo B10BLEs with Alexander ALX300 bodies and a few Volvo B7RLEs with Wright Eclipse Urban bodies and B12M/B12B coaches with Plaxton and Berkhof bodies. Delivered at the end of 2007 were 5 Alexander Dennis Enviro400 bodied Volvo B9TLs, the first of this combination to be delivered to a UK operator. Delivered in late 2008 were 6 Plaxton Centro bodied Volvo B7RLEs for Scarborough Park and Ride, thus making East Yorkshire one of the few operators to have bought both Centros and ADL Enviro 200 Darts. The Plaxton Centro bodied Volvo B7RLEs are East Yorkshire's first Euro 5 engined buses. 30 Wright bodied Volvo B9TLs have been delivered in 2009, 10 in March with the original style Gemini body and 10 in June with the Eclipse Gemini 2 body, with another 10 in December. 6 Wright Eclipse 2-bodied Volvo B7RLEs were delivered in 2010 along with 1 more Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 bodied Volvo B9TL. Latest additions for the 2012 summer season in Scarborough are ex London Plaxton President bodied Volvo B7TLs which have been converted to open top during the winter. More secondhand Plaxton President bodied Volvo B7TLs are being bought ex London in 2012.

The Mercedes-Benz vehicles in the fleet are O814Ds with Plaxton Beaver 2 bodies, O405s with Optare Prisma bodies and two low-floor O405 integrals which are based at Whittles.

The Dennises are Dart midibuses with 10.7-metre long Plaxton Pointer and UVG UrbanStar bodies and 8.8-metre Mini Pointer bodies. Along with some Alexander Dennis Enviro200 Darts. Also in the fleet now are 1 Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 integral diesel delivered in 2010 and 10 Alexander Dennis Enviro 400H hybrids delivered in 2011. At Finglands are 5 Alexander Dennis Enviro300s and 4 Alexander ALX400-bodied Dennis Tridents.

The last remaining Leyland Olympians were withdrawn in 2011 and sold in early 2012, leaving the PD2 as the last remaining licenced Leyland, the end of an era as historically East Yorkshire was a Leyland fleet.

Other vehicles are Optare Excels, Optare Solos, a batch of MAN 18.220s with Alexander ALX300 bodies and East Yorkshire was an early customer for the Plaxton Primo, taking 6 in 2006.

The heritage fleet consist of the aforementioned PD2, a Willowbrook bodied AEC Regent with Beverley Bar roof, an AEC Open Top Routemaster and a Bedford OB with Duple Vista body.

For an up-to-date fleetlist, see.