1967 Bristol MW6G

This was one of the entrants in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.

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, Doncaster

Former Operator - Western National (Royal Blue). The last MW chassis to be built'

It was entered in the Rally again in 1996 when the following information was added:

'This vehicle carries an ECW Series II Coach Body. It was new in 1967 to Western National as a Royal Blue reserve vehicle.'