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

Bristol RE YHK 729 F

YHK729F was delivered as Tillings Transport's T442 during Apr 1968.

It had 47 coach seats in it's Eastern Coachworks body, number 17044.
When built it was fitted with a 2 piece bus (raised) destination panel and a coach type door. (Illustrations)
Its chassis (number RELH-4-129) was powered by a Gardner engine.

This vehicle no longer exists, it was last recorded in Jan 1986.

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
	NBC Express	National Travel South East	1 Mar 1978	Lincoln	David Russon	Click Here
	NBC Express	Lincolnshire 1430	30 Sep 1978	Scunthorpe	bkp550	Click Here
**	NBC Express	Lincolnshire 1430	Nov 1978	Scunthorpe	Book-Buses Magazine
	NBC Express	Lincolnshire 1430	24 Jul 1979	Hull	Frans Angevaare	Click Here
	NBC Express	Lincolnshire 1430	7 Aug 1979	Scunthorpe	stuartp1960	Click Here
	Yellow/Blue	Compass
	Red/White	Eynon		Carmarthen	asporter2007	Click Here

Diary for YHK729F

Date	Event	Owner	Number	Allocation	Details	Livery
Apr 1968	Built for:	Tillings Transport	T441			Tilling coach livery
1 Feb 1970	Sold to:	Eastern National	412		The Bristol RE - A Family Profile
May 1974	Sold to:	National Travel South East	ISBN 1 8704 8400 2		The Bristol RE - A Family Profile
Nov 1977	Withdrawn by:	National Travel South East
Aug 1978	Sold to:	Lincolnshire	1430			NBC Express
Dec 1979				Scunthorpe
Jun 1980				Grimsby
Sep 1980	Withdrawn by:	Lincolnshire
Nov 1980	Sold to:	Crowther (Black Prince)
Mar 1981	Sold to:	Compass
	Repaint				Mark Stokes	Yellow/Blue
Dec 1983	Sold to:	Sykes
By Feb 1984	Sold to:	Eynon
	Repaint				Mark Stokes	Red/White
Mar 1984	Sold to:	West Wales
Jan 1986	Sold to:	Sykes
30 Jan 1986	Last recorded by DVLA					Base colour: Red

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

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