When 180 was delivered First Leicester was still undecided about a future livery and so it was placed into service still wearing First Glasgow red livery. For some unknown reason most of this batch have different window arangements (if you compare with 183/4/91 you will notice none have opening windows in the same places !)

No.181 was one of a batch of Volvo Olympians that came down from Glasgow that recieved "First" livery shortly before departure from the fleet.

Volvo 182 gained "First" livery a couple of months before Withdrawal at the start of 2002 and is seen on route 16 in that final week.

183 was one of 12 Volvo Olympians to Come to Leicester in 2000 from First Glasgow. These were some of the first vehicles to recieve the new livery.

No.184 is another of this batch of Olympians that were transferred to Leicester to Upgrade the fleet and provide dedicated vehicles for route 54.

185 is seen the week before withdrawal Having lost it's route branding for "Yellow Line 54" the route the batch spent most of their time on. It went with two others to First Eastern Counties in Suffolk in Jan 2002.

No.188 is another of the ex Glasgow Olympians and was one of the first vehicles in the new livery.

No.189 Despite the fact there were only a dozen Olympians in the Fleet they wore a variety of Colours and this one kept it's Glasgow Red right up until its withdrawal in January 2002 just after this picture was taken.

191 was oringinally based at Possilpark in the Glasgow suburbs. These vehicles came down to Leicester when Martin O'Neil went up to Glasgow Celtic but Rumours that they were part of the deal have been denied by the company !. This was another to head for Suffolk when replaced in Leicester.

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