Tuesday 31 December 2019

Bedford SPW999 Update

SPW999 In July 1976 outside Reynolds Coaches depot on
Ormesby Road in Caister. Photo supplied by David Bell
You may remember from earlier this year a post (Plea to Help Restore Bedford SBG) regarding a request for help to renovate a Duple bodied Bedford SBG coach.

SPW999 was new to East Coast Motor Company (Orange Coaches) of Cromer in 1955 and then went to Babbage (Grey & Green) a year later. It has a further local connection in that it went to Reynolds of Caister in April 1962 and in circa 1991 was sold to a private owner near North Walsham.

Unfortunately the bid by the local businessman to acquire it for preservation was unsuccessful. John Wakefield has subsequently pointed me in the direction of a recent Flickr photo of SPW999 taken earlier this month. Apparently it has been privately acquired and moved to West Yorkshire for a long term conversion to a camper van.

My thanks to John for bringing this to my attention

Roy

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