Cornwall Bus Preservation Society

Picture Details

Picture Date: 

17 Apr 2011

Photographer: 

Sandie Ireland

As in previous years, the Running Day commences with the cavalcade of vehicles making their way through the streets of Penzance. Here our chairman, Mel is at the wheel of 1968 Bristol LHBristol Commercial Vehicles Light Horizontal engined 716(MUO 328F) followed by one of the two LeylandLeyland Bus was a British bus manufacturer. It emerged from the Rover Group (formerly British Leyland) as a management buyout of the bus business. It was subsequently acquired by Volvo Buses in 1988 and the name finally disappeared in 1993 National's that took part.

Vehicle Details

MUO 328F | Bristol LH | Fleet No. 716

Wed, 18/11/2009 - 9:48am — webmaster

Details

Registration: 

MUO 328F

Fleet No.: 

716

Date acquired: 

Sat, 31/10/2009

This Bristol LH 6L with 45 seat ECWEastern Coach Works Ltd was a bus and railbus body building company based in Lowestoft, England. ECW closed in 1987 bodywork was one of 10 new medium sized buses delivered to Western National in the summer of 1968 with 5 going to Southern National. Built by Bristol Commercial VehiclesBristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd was a manufacturer of buses and trucks based in Bristol, England. Closed 1983. (BCV), the light weight LH was the replacement for the earlier MW and SU models which had similar mid-mounted, horizontal, underfloor engines. Read more

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