Second-hand Classic Age
In the 1970s, the British makers were unable to cope with the vast demand of clients around the British world, so operators like KMB resorted to purchasing second-hand buses and these were numbered with 2 before the alpha code to differentiate them.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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