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Sheffield Corporation – Bedford VAS1 – KWA 811D – 11
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1966Bedford VAS1Craven B22F ‘Mini-bus opens new field for city firm’ – says the Sheffield Telegraph newspaper in January 1966. Sheffield Transport had agreed to buy a prototype of a new design of a small bus developed by Cravens Ltd, a Company which had built a number of single and double deck…
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Marchwood Motorways – Bedford VAM5 – DOT 248D
Marchwood Motorways (Totton)1966Bedford VAM5Plaxton C45F DOT 248D is a Bedford VAM, bought new in 1966 by Marchwood Motorways of Totton, near Southampton (not TOTON, the great railway marshalling yard and depot in the Midlands!). The bodywork is by Plaxton. Like other members of the fleet bought new, she would have been on private hire and…
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Priory Coaches – Bedford VAL 14 – BFT 942D – 50
Priory Coaches of North Shields1966Bedford VAL 14Plaxton C52F George Chapman established Priory Coaches of North Shields in 1929. North Shields is located in what was the County Borough of Tynemouth, and the name and company logo relate to Tynemouth Priory, which is an ancient monument situated within the grounds of Tynemouth Castle. By the early…
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Whippet Coaches – Bedford VAL 14 – 390 GEW
Whippet Coaches1963Bedford VAL14Yeates C52F Taken on Sunday April 21st 1963 at a somewhat wet Brighton coach rally this photo shows a Bedford VAL 14 with a Yeates Fiesta C52F body of Whippet Coaches from Hilton in Cambridgeshire Registration No 390 GEW. This was one of only eleven VAL’s bodied by Yeates at least six of…
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Coalporters Amateur Rowing Club -Bedford VAL – LBY 173D
Coalporters Amateur Rowing Club1966Bedford VAL 14Duple C48F There isn’t a lot to be said about this poor creature other than ‘oh, dear!’. LBY 173D is a Bedford VAL with Duple body, new in 1966 and relegated to carrying club members and their boats to and from events. She is seen near the group’s premises near…
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Air Ministry – Bedford SB – 29 AC 83
Photograph by “Bournefree” – Flickr Air Ministry1954Bedford SBMulliner C29F The Bedford SB was the successor to the ubiquitous OB. Launched at the 1950 Commercial Motor Show, it had big shoes to fill. It was Bedford”s largest PSV chassis yet, some 17′ 2″ long, and possessed a four-speed synchromesh gearbox. Common at the time, but disappearing…
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Wakefields Motors – Bedford SB5 – HFT 264 – 264
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Wakefields Motors Ltd1963Bedford SB5Plaxton C41F The coach fleets of Northern General Transport and its subsidiaries was pretty much as you would expect from a BET company, usually an AEC, Guy or Leyland chassis, and a mixture of high quality bodies from…
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Dan Air – Bedford SB – YXA 372
Dan Air (LondOn)1960Bedford SB8Duple C41F Here is a view of YXA 372, to complement HDA 554E posted a while ago. YXA is another relegated to “staff bus” duties with Dan Air, and seen at Lasham. The layout of the indicators suggests very strongly that she started life with Grey Green or an associated company. She…
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Mid-Wales Motorways – Bedford SB3- RCT 2
Mid-Wales Motorways1960Bedford SB3YeatEs C41F Mid-Wales Motorways was a medium sized independent operator working in the Welsh Marches. Based at Newtown, the fleet operated some lengthy routes, some of which crossed the border into England. Here we see RCT 2, a Bedford SB3 with Yeates bodywork, which was new to Delaine, Bourne, but spent most of…