Alec Head Bedford YNT Plaxton Supreme VI NGL 276X at their Lutton base, 16th October, 2001. It was new to Cornishman, Wadebridge, and came from Simonds of Botesdale in 2000.
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Alec Head Bedford YNT Plaxton Supreme VI NGL 276X at their Lutton base, 16th October, 2001. It was new to Cornishman, Wadebridge, and came from Simonds of Botesdale in 2000.
HULLEY'S, BASLOW
7 (E753HJF), is a Bedford YNT with Duple 320, C53F, body, the first of a pair ex Horton, Ripley, in October, 1991.
Both were new to Horton, in March, 1988.
Blaenau Ffestiniog, 7th April 2005. Hafan Coaches Bedford YNT/Plaxton Spreme AAC785X, originally XVC10X, when new to Chapel End Coaches of Nuneaton
PHILLIPS COACHES, HOLYWELL
C830XCJ, is a Bedford YNT with Duple Laser 2, C53F, body, that was new to them in July, 1986.
Whitwells, Southend, Bedford YNT Duple Laser A236 KTT in Brighton, 11th June, 1996. It was new to Snells, Newton Abbot.
New Enterprise Bedford YNT (12 metre) Plaxton Paramount 3200 A222 DRM in Hastings, 15th August, 1996. The fleet number 7030 is a reminder that New Enterprise was, by this time, a subsidiary of Maidstone & District.
Four Girls, Pontybodkin, operated former Warners Coaches, Milford, Bedford YNT Plaxton Supreme IV NPA 352W for thirteen years, latterly registered VIB 7823. On 4th August 2001, I came across it in Blackpool. It would later become a mobile home.
Duple Dom III bodied Bedford YNT new to Wright (Pullman), Norwich. Unusual these days, it spent its entire life in Norfolk with a number of operators and ran on its original registration without any cherished plates. Ended up with Sanders in 1993 and withdrawn in 1997.
HULLEY'S, BASLOW
D451CNR, a Bedford YNT with Duple, 320, C53F, body, was new to Horton, Ripley, in May, 1987, and acquired from them, in 1990.
The location is a very quiet Wentworth Garden Centre.
Centurion Travel of Midsomer Norton B47 DNY, a 1985 Duple Laser / Bedford YNT, new to Bebb, Llantwit Fardre, is approaching Whitestone Corner Roundabout running up to Glastonbury Festival Coach Station.
Last year this had undergone a overhaul, sorting out the flooring and exterior panels and a respray and looks fantastic, this only works out on Glastonbury so is the only time really to see this out on the road
27/06/2024
Bryant’s Coaches VYD 121W
Bedford YNT / Dupe
Williton – Minehead service
Blue Anchor station
Circa 1986
Photo by Keith Newton, posted with permission.
KIME'S COACHES
New to them in January, 1986, C925WFO, is a Bedford YNT with a Plaxton Paramount 3200 II, C53F, body.
It is caught leaving the bus station, and would be re-registered PAZ 3184, in June, 1997.
KIME'S COACHES
KVL442Y, a Bedford YNT with Plaxton Paramount 3200, Express, C53F, body, was new to them in January, 1983.
It would be re-registered, PAZ 7356, in September, 1997.
Geoff Mills, the doyen of East Anglian bus enthusiasts, died yesterday after a period of illness. He is perhaps most associated with the old Partridges of Hadleigh - where he gained his PSV licence in the late 1950s, so he told me. He is seen here at the wheel of a new Plaxton bodied Bedford YNT in 1982.
Bedford YNT with C53F Plaxton Paramount 3200 body.
New 4/84 to Hurst, Wigan.
Photographed at Anslow's Varteg yard, 24th October 1992.
Gipsy Queen (Cox) of Langley Park were one of the great Durham independents and had a rather distinctive style in vehicles, using coach bodied Bedfords fitted with bus seating, The final examples of these were a pair of Duple Laser 2 Express bodied Bedford YNTs acquired in 1984/85. Only three of this combination were built, the other example going to another NE operator, Tindall of Low Fell. As they had only one route the vinyl display was sufficient and this must have been the last vehicle to be fitted with an 'OMO' sign on the front! Sold in 1988 to the far North of Scotland, having been refitted with coach seats.
Central Coaches at Miller Street, March 1989.
There were nine Plaxron Supreme VI Express bodied Bedford YNTs of which Whittles took two at the time when they seemed to buy a wide mixture of odd vehicles. After sale in 1992 it headed to Cornwall and then finally up to The Orkneys where it survived in use with Rapson up to 2004, a well travelled and long lived coach!
Wrights of Ballymena were largely unknown outside Northern Ireland until they launched the 'Contour' coach body in 1983. Although it made a considerable impression only 37 were actually built, the bulk on Bedford chassis. Most were YNTs such as this example for Cedar Coaches, seen here when new at the 1984 Brighton Coach Rally with owner Eric Reid at the wheel. It would run here for 9 years and eventually crossed the water to Northern Ireland where it lasted with a number of operators until 2008.
Plaxton Paramount bodied Bedford YNT seen here when new to Squirrells of Hitcham in early 1985. Sold in 1990, It would later pass to Reynolds of Caister where it would run for 10 years