Bristol

Bristol were a manufacturing entity, involved in early aircraft, aero engines and cars as well as PSVs. Eventually, the bus business ended up in the inevitable hands of Leyland, although the double deck VR survived as it was the standard vehicle for the National Bus Company; the Bristol facility was heavily involved in the replacement Olympian, the first few of which were actually licensed as Bristols. The RE was killed of for home markets as it competed rather too well with the Leyland National, but Ulsterbus and Citibus in Northern Ireland rebelled, resulting in Leyland reclassifying the province as an export market!

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East Midland 175, SFVC Edwinstowe

Trent, NCT and East Midland provided open top buses for Sherwod Forester services at various times. Here, it is East Midlands' turn, with Bristol VR 175 doing the honours.

The trailer in the background was the Sherwood Forester "control centre", usually staffed by Geoff and Sonia of the County Council's public transport group, providing customer information and also sorting out operational issues on the various shuttles. They had use of a very early mobile phone - about the size of a small briefcase!

Chassis Builder : Bristol
Chassis Type : VRT/SL3/6LXB
Chassis No : VRT/SL3/1421
Body Builder : Eastern Coach Works
Body Style :
Body No : 23129
Seating : OH43/31F

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XRR175S Bus Bristol VRT ECW East Midland Sherwood Forest GB

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