London Booster
After the Olympics, the bus was installed in the Prague neighborhood of Chodov, in front of the Agrofert building, a company owned by former Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš that sponsored the work.
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The bus itself is a 1958 Bristol Lodekka LD double-decker with ECW bodywork. Despite being painted red, it never saw use as a London bus—it was new to the Isle of Wight-based operator Southern Vectis, numbered 555, registered ODL 15, and painted in their green livery. After twenty years of service, it was sold to a dealer who exported it to a museum in the Netherlands. In the 1990s, it was sold to a private operator, who returned it to use in the Netherlands as a red liveried corporate hospitality vehicle, registered BE-27-64. Černý sourced it in December 2011 from a Dutch dealer.
References
- ^ "David Cerny – uplne oficialni stranka".
- ^ "This Ripped London Bus Does a Pushup Every Afternoon". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ^ "A David Cerny sculpture walk in Prague". The Guardian. 10 August 2012. Archived from the original on 1 September 2014.
- ^ ČTK (25 July 2012). "Autobus od Černého koupil Babiš za 9 milionů, bude cvičit u sídla jeho společnosti". Hospodářské noviny (in Czech). Retrieved 3 May 2019.
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