There is also the ‘Beatles’ connection – story from 2001
Mystery also surrounds the Magical Mystery coach itself. The Beatles hired the coach from a firm in Middlesex, but after its starring role, it vanished for nearly two decades. Then, in the late 1980s, Hard Rock Cafe bought the vehicle - a Luton-built, Bedford Val luxury six-wheeler - from a man in England.
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