City of Oxford in Woodstock

By the early Eighties just before mini-bus-madness invaded our streets despite having a large rural area City of Oxford had very few single-deckers apart from service-coaches and indeed was fortunate enough not to be lumbered with that noisy icon of the National Bus Company the Leyland National single-decker. Instead it stuck to the dual-entrance Bristol VR and then also with ECW bodywork twenty-four very civilised Leyland Olympians like numerically the first No.201 seen to the north of the city in the pretty village of Woodstock.