Les G-C
 

Your mission should you choose to accept it is :- Given the reg no LXJ 574G Can you find out who owened this coach, it was a Bedford Val. I spotted it on a commercial for Coronation Street.

XJ registration from Manchester. G registration was August 1968 to July 1969.
It was almost certainly a VAL70 with Bedford 466 cu in (7.64 litre) normally aspirated engine (earlier models were fitted with 6.17 litre 0.400 Leyland engines).
LXJ 574G no longer features in the registration database nor in:- http://wakefield-files.freehostia.co...rdval-list.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_VAL

http://wakefield-files.freehostia.com/bedfordval.htm

Thanks G-C it was but a slim chance, I thought that it might have been Mayne of Manchester.

Ian

How recently did you see it? Was it archive footage?

LXJ 475G was new to Holt , Rusholme in 1969 .
Bedford VAL70 - Plaxton - C52f .

Thanks very much Les.

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