The coach will be displayed in the former Military Vehicle Museum which the Shepherd family bought from the council and is currently being renovated.

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The royal couple later visited the Cheshire Military Museum and experienced life in a trench which formed part of an exhibition about World War I.

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Outside the museum sits the twisted remains of a downed helicopter in which notoriously brutal military commander Lt Col Domingo Monterrosa died after being lured into an explosive trap by Venceremos activists using a rigged transmitter.

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