Category: Vehicle Stories
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MPU 52’s European Adventure – A busman’s holiday.
The Life and Times of MPU 52 in the words of John Gent. Just after the War, Bristol could not fulfil all their orders so some of the Tilling companies took a few Leyland PD1s to fill the shortage. Fitted with E181 7.4Litre engines these Leyland chassis were married up to Eastern Coachworks standard Bristol…
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JVW 430 Returns Home
JVW 430 Returns HomeOriginally published in “Request Stop”, CPTMS Newsletter, December 1988Written by Douglas Payne On 14 February 1944, JVW 430, a Bristol K5G chassis carrying a new design of Eastern Coach Works Lowbridge body was licenced for the road by Essex County Council. JVW was a combination of a pre-war chassis assembled during World…
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ONO 49
Sometimes we walk past Society vehicles in the Museum without really stopping to consider their history, how they came to be owned by the Society, and the reasons why they escaped the scrapman’s fiery torch! Let’s remind ourselves – starting with ONO 49. ONO 49 is one of ten Bristol L5G buses that were ordered…