EASTERN COUNTIES COACHES RECALLED

Today we recall the early 1970's looking at Eastern Counties coach fleet, first up we see CB 848 one of 4 Bedford YRT Duple coaches, being pretty lightweight these only lasted a year being transferred to National Travel South East in 1975 and sold on after only 2 years. Much more successful were the Bristol RE Coach all though by reports they were pretty gutless, seen here parked overnight in a London Country garage is RE 855 LPW 855L. Finally at the bottom a Bedford VAM/Duple CB 845 PPW 845F from the second batch,freshly repainted into the hideous National Express livery, which certainly didn't do it's lines any good, note the Mascot National fleet name.