BRISTOL RELH/ECW A website about the original ECW body on the Bristol RELH chassis.

Bristol RE RDV 433 H

RDV433H was delivered as Western National's 1482 during Jun 1970.

It had 45 coach seats in it's Eastern Coachworks body, number 18173.
When built it was fitted with a 2 piece coach (small) destination panel and a coach type door. (Illustrations)
Its chassis (number RELH-4-290) was powered by a Gardner engine.

This vehicle is now preserved.

Photographs

All links to photos shown below are to other Internet sites, all photos will be the copyright of their respective owners.
Where no copyright details are shown the photo is known to exist, but is not freely available.
There may be other photos on the Internet that I cannot show the links for. See 'Useful sites for finding pictures' on the links page.
For pictures in books click on the copyright link for more information.
** = Black and white photo, otherwise colour.

	Livery	Owner	Date	Location	Photo copyright	Photo link
**	Royal Blue Blue/Cream	Western National 1482		Gloucester
	NBC Express	Western National 1482		Plymouth	Sou'wester	Click Here
**	NBC Express	Western National 1482
**	NBC Express	Western National 1482	Aug 1980		Book-The Bristol RE	Buy Book
	White	Western National 1482			tipperman	Click Here
	White	Bridge Cross Garages (Linley)	9 Sep 1984	York	Mark Harrington	Click Here
	White/Blue	Western National 1482 Preserved	1993	Lichfield	Book-Royal Blue IP
	White/Blue	Western National 1482 Preserved			Rob Sly's site	Click Here
	White/Blue	Western National 1482 Preserved	21 Jul 2014	Stafford	Western Bonkers	Click Here
	Royal Blue Blue/Cream	Western National 1482 Preserved	Dec 2014	Long Eaton	Ken Jones	Click Here
					Ken Jones	Click Here
	Unpainted	Western National 1482 Preserved, Rear view	28 Nov 2015		Ken Jones	Click Here
					Ken Jones	Click Here

Diary for RDV433H

Date	Event	Owner	Number	Allocation	Details	Livery
Jun 1970	Built for:	Western National	1482			Royal Blue Blue/Cream
Feb 1974				Taunton
Jul 1975				Taunton	Plymouth Bus Club
By Dec 1978	Withdrawn by:	Western National
Jul 1979	Reinstated	Western National	1482
Mar 1980				Cornwall Area
Apr 1980	Transfer			St Austell
Sep 1980				Cornwall Area
Nov 1980	Withdrawn by:	Western National
27 Feb 1981		Western National	1482	Bideford
Apr 1981	Sold to:	Ensign
May 1981	Sold to:	Harley and Preece (Station Road Coaches)	31
Nov 1981	Sold to:	Bridge Cross Garages (Linley)
1 Apr 1985	Last recorded by DVLA					Base colour: Blue
By Aug 1989	Sold to:	Harley and Preece (Station Road Coaches)			DJS Traditional Independents Register 1989
By Dec 1990	Withdrawn by:	Harley and Preece (Station Road Coaches)			DJS Traditional Independents Register 1991
Oct 1992	Sold to:	Fowler			Rob Sly's site
Nov 2014	Sold to:	Burdett			Rob Sly's site
Sep 2016	Sold to:	McAllister			Richard McAllister
5 Jan 2018	Sold to:	Nick Jackson and Dan Shears			Rob Sly's site
	Current				Rob Sly's site	White/Blue

Owners shown above in Green are preservationists, Red are dealers, Blue for PSV use and brown for None-PSV.

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