page_title: Open top buses in Torbay
section_title: Devon General
hierarchical_section_title: Open top buses in Torbay / Vehicles / Devon General
caption_attribution_description: English: Preserved Devon General 'Sea Dog' open top Leyland Atlantean 927 Sir Martin Frobisher at Torquay Harbour. It was operating a special service to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the introduction of 'Sea Dogs' in 1961.
context_page_description: Devon General first operated open top buses in Torbay in 1919 but reintroduced open top buses on tourist routes in 1955. New buses were introduced in 1961 which were known as 'Sea Dogs' because of the names they were given, but these were later replaced by those of 'Warships'.
context_section_description: The six old buses rebuilt to open top form in 1955 were 21-year-old AEC Regent Is with bodies by Short Brothers. These were replaced by nine Leyland Atlanteans with convertible Weymann bodies in 1961. These were all given the names of historic sailors and known as "Sea Dogs". In 1976 two AEC Regent Vs with Willowbrook bodies had their roofs removed and were added to the open top fleet.
  The Sea Dogs were replaced in 1978 by nine new Bristol VRTs with 74 seat Eastern Coach Works convertible bodies. Two of the VRTs were allocated to Southern National when Western National's Somerset and Dorset operations were divested in 1983 but five continued to operate at Torbay until the end of the 1990 season. After this a limited open top service was operated with just one bus.
caption: 927 Sir Francis Drake
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