Portsmouth City Museums Collection:

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This was one of fifteen prototype trolleybuses purchased for evaluation purposes, prior to a baulk order being placed. It was originally numbered 1, but later had two hundred added to its fleet number, together with the rest of the trolleybus fleet, in 1939. This was intended to bring to the attention of following bus drivers that they were behind a trolleybus rather than a motor-bus, if they were driving a trolleybus themselves it was important for them to know in case they contemplated overtaking! No. 201 was withdrawn in 1958 and stored at Eastney depot before being sold locally in 1960. Later that year it was presented to the Montague Motor Museum at Beaulieu but unfortunately it was displayed in the open air and the timber framework has suffered accordingly. Portsmouth City Musuems aquired the vechicle for their transport collection in 1972.