This was one of the entrants in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1996.
It's a 1967 Bristol MW6G with Eastern Coachworks body that was supplied new to the Western National Omnibus Company of Exeter in February 1967 with fleet number 1436. From 1970 it operated on the company's Royal Blue Services and continued in service with the Western National Omnibus Company until 1977. The MW6G was built with a Gardner diesel engine of either 5-cylinders (5HLW) or 6-cylinders (6HLW) and the DVLA record says that HDV 641E has an 8.4 litre unit, which would seem to indicate the 8,370cc 6-cylinder 6HLW engine. The programme of the event said this about the bus:
Bristol MW6G, ECW C39F, 1967 HDV 641E
Royal Blue 1436
Entered by D Brown, Hatfield, Doncaster
Former Operator - Western National (Royal Blue). Last ever MW chassis to be produced.
This vehicle carries an ECW Series II Coach Body. It was new in 1967 to Western National
as a Royal Blue reserve vehicle.
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