1947 Bedford OB

This was one of the vehicles taking part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1988.

It's a 1947 Bedford OB and the programme of the event had the following note about the vehicle:

 

HTF 586 BEDFORD OB, SMT B29F, 1947, WARBURTONS OF BURY. Entered by Greater Manchester Transport Society. Warburtons first postwar coach, HTF 586 was used by them until sold in 1950 to R.W. Rouse of Oxhill. Rouse used the coach until retirement in 1973 when the vehicle passed to preservation.

Greater Manchester Transport Museum

I took this photograph at the Greater Manchester Transport Museum in June 1983.

On the left is the former Rawtenstall Corporation 1950 Leyland Tiger PS2/1 with East Lancs B35R body, which I understand is now in the Bury Transport Museum. On the right is the 1947 Bedford OB that was originally operated by Warburton Brothers (Bury), and is still in the Greater Manchester Transport Museum.