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David Frazer provides these photographs and reports: "I was up in London one Sunday in September, and by chance came across 'The Da Vinci Code' filming outside the Temple Church in Fleet Street. Watched by several dozen onlookers, the crew filmed Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou run a few metres down the street and hide behind the corner of a building, over and over again.
The production had a convoy of background vehicles that would drive East down Fleet Street, turn around and drive back the other way to appear in the shot. One of them was an East Thames Buses Volvo, fleet number VWL1, with fake blinds for route 11 pasted on." It's a Wright-bodied Volvo B7TL; David adds: "The fake blinds, which are not in the correct New Johnson typeface, are particularly obvious in this photo." In the movie Hanks and Tatou travel on VWL1; there's a glimpse of a First Dennis Trident behind it:

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