Built in 1951 this Bristol KSW low bridge Double Decker Bus spent 19 years in service for Wilts & Dorset Motor Service in South England. In 1970 the Bus was converted into a mobile home by a group of young people calling themselves, The Overland Five. On an attempted world tour, the Overland Five drove the Bus through Russia, Europe, Greece, Turkey, India, Nepal (this being the first Double Decker to reach Kathmandu) and Australia before arriving in NZ in late 1973. The bus was then sold and spent 10 years travelling NZ as a mobile information exchange centre on alternative lifestyles, then another 10 years as a sales centre for the World Book Encyclopaedia & for a short time was used as mobile diner. The Bus has been in Taupo since 1994.