Bedford shorty coach thing

[JeeExEll]

Another Bedford Shorty spotted in the wild. This one's happily snuffling around it's natural habitat looking for some diesel and cheeseburgers. Pic courtesy of David Attenborough.

 

[JeeExEll]

Doors open for The Magical Mystery Tour.

 

Step right this way.

 

[bigstraight6]

We are the South Preservation Society.

That's ace, there's one like this that floats about Plymouth but it looks much older with a lovely chrome grille that's slightly oval in shape, and I'm sure it has fins over the rear lights which again makes it look older. It's apparently available for hire and I might be just doing that as part of my 50th birthday bash in just under 12 months time

[mercrocker]

 

We are the South Preservation Society.

 

Is that a glimmer of interior lighting there - confirming life not yet extinguished? 

 

Lovely thing, I never realised they had made these Plaxton shorties long enough to update the front end.   

[Inspector Morose]

They didn't. It's a recent(ish) modification. Probably because the usual chrome grille was missing/beaten to fuck and made of purest unobtanium.

 

 

 

 

 

Have a slightly bigger small Bedford coach thingy.

[mercrocker]

Thanks for the clarification FBP.....I missed a lot of things that happened in the 1970s but felt sure I hadn't missed that!

[Felly Magic]

They didn't. It's a recent(ish) modification. Probably because the usual chrome grille was missing/beaten to fuck and made of purest unobtanium.

 

 

 

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Have a slightly bigger small Bedford coach thingy.

I think that's the same one used in an old VOSA training video, where later on the VOSA wheeltapper starts feeling about inside a wheelarch of a D10M in London

[cms206]

I think that's the same one used in an old VOSA training video, where later on the VOSA wheeltapper starts feeling about inside a wheelarch of a D10M in London

Whats a D10M?

 

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[Felly Magic]

NC bodied Citybus London General one IIRC

[Dead_E23]

There's a page dedicated to 'Blims' on the excellent TravellerHomes website.    Anyone know why they're called a 'Blim'?

[cms206]

NC bodied Citybus London General one IIRC

Ahhh, a Citybus. D10Ms, like B9Ms, DO NOT FUCKING EXIST.

 

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[quicksilver]

Ahhh, a Citybus. D10Ms, like B9Ms, DO NOT FUCKING EXIST.

 

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Explain this then. The B9M seems to have existed enough for badges to be made, unless somebody cobbled this one up using an upsidedown 6 from a B6.

The Wray way by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

[cms206]

Explain this then. The B9M seems to have existed enough for badges to be made, unless somebody cobbled this one up using an upsidedown 6 from a B6.

The Wray way by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

I've seen B9M badges, all of which have been on Mk.4 B10M-48s like that B10M-48 in the picture.

 

However there is no actual reference to a B9M in Volvo speak, nor is there a D10M; they (almost all) carried B10M on the chassis plate, largely because short B10Ms didn't have a 9-litre engine. I say almost all; our former demonstrator B10M Citybus was a development hack and it's chassis designation was BD10X.

 

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[quicksilver]

I've seen B9M badges, all of which have been on Mk.4 B10M-48s like that B10M-48 in the picture.

 

However there is no actual reference to a B9M in Volvo speak, nor is there a D10M; they (almost all) carried B10M on the chassis plate, largely because short B10Ms didn't have a 9-litre engine. I say almost all; our former demonstrator B10M Citybus was a development hack and it's chassis designation was BD10X.

 

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It must be some kind of 'semi-official' thing then - maybe the UK supplier realised customers were calling them B9Ms for some reason and decided to badge them as such but I've never actually seen a proper explanation. Officially they're B10M-46 and B10M-48 and the B9M name doesn't actually make any sense as they're neither 9 metres long nor have a 9-litre engine (unlike the B9R).

[Inspector Morose]

Just to annoy you both, have a B7M