The TDH-5303 replaced the TDH-5301 as the 40' long 102" wide bus in 1963, and ETS received their first 20 TDH-5303's in 1964. These buses have many spotting differences between a TDH-5301 with the most obvious being the tailgate, and marker lights, though a TDH-5303 in Winnipeg was recently fitted with a TDH-5301 marker light! Furthermore the TDH-5303 didn't have the raised part of the body below the passenger windows, like a TDH-5301 had. Some of these buses are suspected to have been retired in the mid 1980's and into the early 1990's. The last ones in service were #s 480 and 490. A number of these buses went to Canadian Consolidated Salvage in 1997 or 1998. #480 also went to Canadian Consolidated Salvage in 2000. #482 was found in a storage yard in south Edmonton, converted to a motorhome. An interesting fact about #480 is that once in its life it had a TDH-5301 tailgate! This was changed though before the bus was retired.
Units 474-483 |
Units 484-493 |