I recall as a child in 1971 my ears being hammered by one of these sitting near the front with my dad on a sightseeing trip around snowdonia out of Llandudno, as well as the noise climbing the hills I recall the sunroof leaking in the obligatory rain. I was fascinated by it being twin steer.
@JohnMyatt-ko5rz2 ай бұрын
I wonder why Bedford didn’t use larger units like leyland did, and taller gearing ?
@stephenarthy65933 ай бұрын
I don’t think he likes his mirrors very much
@user-sc8dh4vn4v4 ай бұрын
I just love the bit where he signals to the lorry driver his intentions proper driving proper gent love a plaxton🤠
@honestopinion2535 ай бұрын
what a fantastic sound
@AM2PMparking5 ай бұрын
Great to see 42471 there, should be back out this year!
@neilkeepingitreal6 ай бұрын
That distinctive icky smell as you boarded one of these old girls...reminds me of the Wednesday night after school detention bus what used to be laid on for us naughty kids back in the day 😂
@seeyouintheeighties9 ай бұрын
I remember this as a kid, was that big block next to the gear stick the engine? I always wondered what that was
@stevelester90154 ай бұрын
It is the engine
@seeyouintheeighties4 ай бұрын
@@stevelester9015 the engine is inside the cabin?
@stevelester90154 ай бұрын
@@seeyouintheeighties it is right next to the driver
@vicsams443110 ай бұрын
The only loco I have driven was a V63 / 630 / Gigant, a 12,000 hp Co-Co electric loco in Hungary at 100 kmh / 62 mph !
@naveenjoshy493111 ай бұрын
This vehicle fiitted with Leyland 401?
@stevelester90159 күн бұрын
Bedford 466
@sailormoon254811 ай бұрын
I want to have a go on that one
@tommytippee2437 Жыл бұрын
Takes me back to early 1970's when as kids we were taken to the swimming lessons at Lancaster Baths and school tours in a Duple Viceroy run by Baterrsy silver grey coach company from Heysham. I can remember how we all roared " Hurray" as the coach moved off on our trips. This video is timewharp and beautiful. That guy really knows how to drive thus lovely old coach. Pity about the toerag in the red car overtaking at an insane speed. Yess a turbo would be welcome but that's how these old creatures were full of character.
@stephensmith1553 Жыл бұрын
It’s nice to see that you just have to drive all the time James Underwood
@superbracey Жыл бұрын
4:36 - What a cacophony. I love it!
@MrPhilpalmer4 Жыл бұрын
"this is the self preservation society"
@owenlewis8006 Жыл бұрын
I love that engine sound!
@train4905 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic
@kathrynwhitby9799 Жыл бұрын
noisy!
@nitrorory Жыл бұрын
These things were woefully underpowered
@northstar1950 Жыл бұрын
They were of their time.
@timothyjames6578 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of primary school journeys in late 80s on 45 seater coach plated SOR944G.
@neilkeepingitreal6 ай бұрын
I'm glad I'm not the only one who weirdly remembered my school bus / coach number plate mine was rrt100w 😂
@DaveInBridport Жыл бұрын
Speed pick up on the 37 pretty good for a 60yo lady...
@SPTSuperSprinter156 Жыл бұрын
How much power does this thing have? I was quite surprised to see the driver have to rev match it into first going up that hill at around the 5:00 mark. Sound reminds me of American 2 stroke diesels.
@owenlewis8006 Жыл бұрын
Not much, maybe 140 bhp.
@stevelester9015 Жыл бұрын
It was down to second gear up the hill, they weren't best known for hill climbing 🙂
@drchrisdavies29417 ай бұрын
Nice sounding, but quite underpowered compared to say a Leyland Leopard, which had a much larger engine
@nitrorory Жыл бұрын
It’s cool to hear the old engine sounds ! These things were desperate for a turbo
@lucythemoggy1970 Жыл бұрын
didnt like hills very much did it?.....
@davidellis279 Жыл бұрын
That driver never used his N/S mirror once, it’s a good job nobody was up his near side,does make me wonder how many times he’s clipped something and not known about it,I’m glad he not driving an artic with a 40 foot trailer behind him.
@stevelester9015 Жыл бұрын
Actually I did use the mirrors, I always know where my coach is and no curbs were clipped, and for your information I also own and drive 40ft artics 😅😅
@davidellis279 Жыл бұрын
@@stevelester9015 I think you should look at the video before making any comments,it didn’t show you in a good light and had you been taking your test with the examiner sat behind you you would have failed and as far as I could see you neither checked your near side mirror or looked over your right shoulder to check there was a cyclists along side you in your blind spot, I have a class one HGV license as well as a full PSV license for double decker’s and have had them for over 50years. I have driven all the early Duple and Plaxton coaches by Ford Bedford AEC and Leyland mostly 52 seaters but now only drive Scania artics.
@stevelester9015 Жыл бұрын
Well done you I'm so pleased for you 😂😂😂
@Danielle-sm1qj Жыл бұрын
kzread.info/dash/bejne/h6mfmM5sh9qod5M.html I found a video for you David. Hope you don't feel left out anymore 😂😘
@ianwatkins9602 Жыл бұрын
What the hell are you talking about? The driving was progressive and smooth. Wipe your chin, you seem to be dribbling excrement.
@michaellecaplain3377 Жыл бұрын
Takes me back to when I was a nipper in the late 1970s. We used to get taken to the local swimming baths in St Helens in one very similar to this. Can still hear that engine and smell the upholstery. Happy days.
@robertp.wainman40943 ай бұрын
Yes - I know just how this would smell!
@stephenpowell59122 жыл бұрын
Love to do something like this ❤️Classic locos and Classic Clag ❤️
@markwood17192 жыл бұрын
The Hymek would be my No1
@gregharvie38962 жыл бұрын
Hi from Sydney , Australia. I grew up in Mosman , Sydney & the local bus owner/operator was my grandad's mate they had both studied engineering together. When Bill bought his first 4 VAL's I was still a kid at school & one of my favourite toys was Dinky Toys Bedford VAL Vega Major , I had all 4 versions , the 2 British versions with & without flashing indicators & the 2 Swisse mail versions with & without flashing indicators. As an aside, I had to go all the way to a Swiss post shop in the 1960's to get my M-961 blinking light version , & saw one at a toy auction 3 years back sell for just below $3500 US dollars !! for a TOY . However in reality in the end , Bill bought all 16 Bedford VAL chassis that came to Australia, including one that was damaged in an accident & subsequent small fire , to remedy this he bought a "display" body off GM-Vauxhall in the UK which had been on show at their facility when he had earlier visited the UK to place orders & look at the new VAL, he enquired if they still owned it and would it be available for sale, it had a chassis , no engine , no interior , so once purchased & shipped here 12,000miles away , the fitted the engine & drive line from the damaged on , commissioned a new fresh interior , had it passed for New South Wales registration & it was then in service. When I was going to UNI' in my last year I helped Bill out on several charters when he was a driver short on trips from Sydney to Canberra all up about 400 mile run and back then then driving around the spacious and in 70's near empty grand wide boulevards & freeways in Canberra taking groups to the Nation's premiere museums, art Gallery , National Art gallery etc over a long weekend, also back in the early 70's we did not have the Sydney to Canberra motorway so there were windy hilly sections of the old Hume Highway , then off that & onto the Federal highway just out of Goulburn , finally the really windy hilly & steep section just before NSW becomes the ACT, these VAL's were a joy to drive , & they were all I'd hoped that they would be all the years later when I was finally old enough to be legally allowed to drive one with a full compliment of passengers. AS they still to this day look amazing with their twin steer wheels & beautiful ahead of their time panoramic window & body designs. Re the unique gear shift pattern , compared to some of the older specialist vehicles that my own Grandad owned in his fleet of vehicles , the Bedford VAL's was easy .
@jwilloughby61752 жыл бұрын
What an idiot taking it down that lane
@stevelester9015 Жыл бұрын
Its kept in a barn on the lane and has done ever since I've owned it
@shingerz2 жыл бұрын
I know people don't like noise but that's brilliant
@shingerz2 жыл бұрын
That sounds bloody great I loved the sound of trucks and buses when I was a kid this sounds awesome I used to love the sound of the bedford army trucks great stuff glad people like these vehicles keep em going 👍
@MasterMuscle1002 жыл бұрын
Lucky boy!
@arthurgreenway13692 жыл бұрын
Came across this video, used to part own & drive a plaxton panorama elite with a Ford straight 6, chinese gearbox & Eaton 2 speed backaxle. No power steering & air over hydraulics brakes, gearbox was badly worn synchro so double declutching was a must, you wouldn't get thro the box if you couldn't do that.
@alasdairvincent62482 жыл бұрын
These old Bedford coaches have a sound of their own. Music to my ears! I hope this one has lots of miles to travel yet. She runs as sweet as a nut.If the Bedford Val in the Italian Job had been driven as well as this, the guys would have got the gold bars to their intended destination!
@WCML7302 жыл бұрын
Ok these sounds like some of the F70s/ F77s so is this bus used for it or Wright Solar, i dont just know!!? (Milton Keynes - Luton Station Interchange, Via Bletchley, Leighton Buzzard & Dunstable)
@themanmaschine3 жыл бұрын
Would love a shot of that!
@danielrussell4463 жыл бұрын
That sound takes me back 30 years and going on the coach with all the family and extended family to Blackpool for the lights such happy times sadly so far away least can see these old girls saved now
@garywinterbottom60733 жыл бұрын
Brings back many happy memories of going to Blackpool as a boy on holiday in the seventies and 80s the coach park was Rigby road in those days.
@danielrussell4463 жыл бұрын
Yes I agree Gary we used to always go as a family and filled a 52 seater usually a duple bodied Leyland or Bedford belonging to evergreen of Halesowen lots of very happy memories
@garywinterbottom60733 жыл бұрын
@@danielrussell446 we went on Hanson or abbeyways and ivesways coaches .
@MavAuto-Pete3 жыл бұрын
Think the BMW wanted to pass 🤔 lol
@ianjones41163 жыл бұрын
By the end of the vid, your a pro,, arm out the window resting on the brake. I'd be, right, wheres my brew and the ashtray !! Love the chaos in the 26 lol. 😀👍
@bustersw17603 жыл бұрын
I drove a VAL back in the 70`s. Only had it for a few days, as it was hired to cover a vehicle off the road due to breakdown. It had really nice steering and very bad brakes, due to the small size of the brake linings on the 16 inch wheels apparently, though it did have a retarder. BUT, the thing I took ages to get used to, was the Turner "Chinese" gearbox. My permanent coach was a Bedford with the regular 5 speed, but the VAL had the change pattern completely different. By the time I got used to it, it was sent back and I got my regular vehicle back.
@arthurgreenway13692 жыл бұрын
Part owner/Driver with a Ford Plaxton Panorama Elite (1965 reg) in the 1980's which had the chinese box, worn synchro so double declutching was a must. Also had Eaton 2 speed backaxle, air over hydraulic brakes . Drove it 4yrs for a couple of bands.
@waynetetley5843 жыл бұрын
Love the Bedford air brake whistle - trademark sound
@doveronefoxtrot44172 жыл бұрын
Used to drive the KM lorry with exact same sound.
@AJ-qn6gd5 ай бұрын
We used to call them Bedford Squeekers 👍🏻🇬🇧
@ianwatkins96023 жыл бұрын
That engine sounds crisp!
@michaellyons96783 жыл бұрын
hanson coaches hudderfield a mon my way to school 1974
@andijames48703 жыл бұрын
where was this? thought i saw cheltenham racecourse
@Totenkreischer3 жыл бұрын
I love the sound from the old Sulzer Engines
@nevwhile3 жыл бұрын
Nice one. A couple of extra gears and some more soundproofing wouldnt go a miss 😀
@lucythemoggy19703 жыл бұрын
that's wot makes it so lovely, if you want sound deadening, get on a new coach
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Geared like a road bus
I recall as a child in 1971 my ears being hammered by one of these sitting near the front with my dad on a sightseeing trip around snowdonia out of Llandudno, as well as the noise climbing the hills I recall the sunroof leaking in the obligatory rain. I was fascinated by it being twin steer.
I wonder why Bedford didn’t use larger units like leyland did, and taller gearing ?
I don’t think he likes his mirrors very much
I just love the bit where he signals to the lorry driver his intentions proper driving proper gent love a plaxton🤠
what a fantastic sound
Great to see 42471 there, should be back out this year!
That distinctive icky smell as you boarded one of these old girls...reminds me of the Wednesday night after school detention bus what used to be laid on for us naughty kids back in the day 😂
I remember this as a kid, was that big block next to the gear stick the engine? I always wondered what that was
It is the engine
@@stevelester9015 the engine is inside the cabin?
@@seeyouintheeighties it is right next to the driver
The only loco I have driven was a V63 / 630 / Gigant, a 12,000 hp Co-Co electric loco in Hungary at 100 kmh / 62 mph !
This vehicle fiitted with Leyland 401?
Bedford 466
I want to have a go on that one
Takes me back to early 1970's when as kids we were taken to the swimming lessons at Lancaster Baths and school tours in a Duple Viceroy run by Baterrsy silver grey coach company from Heysham. I can remember how we all roared " Hurray" as the coach moved off on our trips. This video is timewharp and beautiful. That guy really knows how to drive thus lovely old coach. Pity about the toerag in the red car overtaking at an insane speed. Yess a turbo would be welcome but that's how these old creatures were full of character.
It’s nice to see that you just have to drive all the time James Underwood
4:36 - What a cacophony. I love it!
"this is the self preservation society"
I love that engine sound!
Fantastic
noisy!
These things were woefully underpowered
They were of their time.
Reminds me of primary school journeys in late 80s on 45 seater coach plated SOR944G.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who weirdly remembered my school bus / coach number plate mine was rrt100w 😂
Speed pick up on the 37 pretty good for a 60yo lady...
How much power does this thing have? I was quite surprised to see the driver have to rev match it into first going up that hill at around the 5:00 mark. Sound reminds me of American 2 stroke diesels.
Not much, maybe 140 bhp.
It was down to second gear up the hill, they weren't best known for hill climbing 🙂
Nice sounding, but quite underpowered compared to say a Leyland Leopard, which had a much larger engine
It’s cool to hear the old engine sounds ! These things were desperate for a turbo
didnt like hills very much did it?.....
That driver never used his N/S mirror once, it’s a good job nobody was up his near side,does make me wonder how many times he’s clipped something and not known about it,I’m glad he not driving an artic with a 40 foot trailer behind him.
Actually I did use the mirrors, I always know where my coach is and no curbs were clipped, and for your information I also own and drive 40ft artics 😅😅
@@stevelester9015 I think you should look at the video before making any comments,it didn’t show you in a good light and had you been taking your test with the examiner sat behind you you would have failed and as far as I could see you neither checked your near side mirror or looked over your right shoulder to check there was a cyclists along side you in your blind spot, I have a class one HGV license as well as a full PSV license for double decker’s and have had them for over 50years. I have driven all the early Duple and Plaxton coaches by Ford Bedford AEC and Leyland mostly 52 seaters but now only drive Scania artics.
Well done you I'm so pleased for you 😂😂😂
kzread.info/dash/bejne/h6mfmM5sh9qod5M.html I found a video for you David. Hope you don't feel left out anymore 😂😘
What the hell are you talking about? The driving was progressive and smooth. Wipe your chin, you seem to be dribbling excrement.
Takes me back to when I was a nipper in the late 1970s. We used to get taken to the local swimming baths in St Helens in one very similar to this. Can still hear that engine and smell the upholstery. Happy days.
Yes - I know just how this would smell!
Love to do something like this ❤️Classic locos and Classic Clag ❤️
The Hymek would be my No1
Hi from Sydney , Australia. I grew up in Mosman , Sydney & the local bus owner/operator was my grandad's mate they had both studied engineering together. When Bill bought his first 4 VAL's I was still a kid at school & one of my favourite toys was Dinky Toys Bedford VAL Vega Major , I had all 4 versions , the 2 British versions with & without flashing indicators & the 2 Swisse mail versions with & without flashing indicators. As an aside, I had to go all the way to a Swiss post shop in the 1960's to get my M-961 blinking light version , & saw one at a toy auction 3 years back sell for just below $3500 US dollars !! for a TOY . However in reality in the end , Bill bought all 16 Bedford VAL chassis that came to Australia, including one that was damaged in an accident & subsequent small fire , to remedy this he bought a "display" body off GM-Vauxhall in the UK which had been on show at their facility when he had earlier visited the UK to place orders & look at the new VAL, he enquired if they still owned it and would it be available for sale, it had a chassis , no engine , no interior , so once purchased & shipped here 12,000miles away , the fitted the engine & drive line from the damaged on , commissioned a new fresh interior , had it passed for New South Wales registration & it was then in service. When I was going to UNI' in my last year I helped Bill out on several charters when he was a driver short on trips from Sydney to Canberra all up about 400 mile run and back then then driving around the spacious and in 70's near empty grand wide boulevards & freeways in Canberra taking groups to the Nation's premiere museums, art Gallery , National Art gallery etc over a long weekend, also back in the early 70's we did not have the Sydney to Canberra motorway so there were windy hilly sections of the old Hume Highway , then off that & onto the Federal highway just out of Goulburn , finally the really windy hilly & steep section just before NSW becomes the ACT, these VAL's were a joy to drive , & they were all I'd hoped that they would be all the years later when I was finally old enough to be legally allowed to drive one with a full compliment of passengers. AS they still to this day look amazing with their twin steer wheels & beautiful ahead of their time panoramic window & body designs. Re the unique gear shift pattern , compared to some of the older specialist vehicles that my own Grandad owned in his fleet of vehicles , the Bedford VAL's was easy .
What an idiot taking it down that lane
Its kept in a barn on the lane and has done ever since I've owned it
I know people don't like noise but that's brilliant
That sounds bloody great I loved the sound of trucks and buses when I was a kid this sounds awesome I used to love the sound of the bedford army trucks great stuff glad people like these vehicles keep em going 👍
Lucky boy!
Came across this video, used to part own & drive a plaxton panorama elite with a Ford straight 6, chinese gearbox & Eaton 2 speed backaxle. No power steering & air over hydraulics brakes, gearbox was badly worn synchro so double declutching was a must, you wouldn't get thro the box if you couldn't do that.
These old Bedford coaches have a sound of their own. Music to my ears! I hope this one has lots of miles to travel yet. She runs as sweet as a nut.If the Bedford Val in the Italian Job had been driven as well as this, the guys would have got the gold bars to their intended destination!
Ok these sounds like some of the F70s/ F77s so is this bus used for it or Wright Solar, i dont just know!!? (Milton Keynes - Luton Station Interchange, Via Bletchley, Leighton Buzzard & Dunstable)
Would love a shot of that!
That sound takes me back 30 years and going on the coach with all the family and extended family to Blackpool for the lights such happy times sadly so far away least can see these old girls saved now
Brings back many happy memories of going to Blackpool as a boy on holiday in the seventies and 80s the coach park was Rigby road in those days.
Yes I agree Gary we used to always go as a family and filled a 52 seater usually a duple bodied Leyland or Bedford belonging to evergreen of Halesowen lots of very happy memories
@@danielrussell446 we went on Hanson or abbeyways and ivesways coaches .
Think the BMW wanted to pass 🤔 lol
By the end of the vid, your a pro,, arm out the window resting on the brake. I'd be, right, wheres my brew and the ashtray !! Love the chaos in the 26 lol. 😀👍
I drove a VAL back in the 70`s. Only had it for a few days, as it was hired to cover a vehicle off the road due to breakdown. It had really nice steering and very bad brakes, due to the small size of the brake linings on the 16 inch wheels apparently, though it did have a retarder. BUT, the thing I took ages to get used to, was the Turner "Chinese" gearbox. My permanent coach was a Bedford with the regular 5 speed, but the VAL had the change pattern completely different. By the time I got used to it, it was sent back and I got my regular vehicle back.
Part owner/Driver with a Ford Plaxton Panorama Elite (1965 reg) in the 1980's which had the chinese box, worn synchro so double declutching was a must. Also had Eaton 2 speed backaxle, air over hydraulic brakes . Drove it 4yrs for a couple of bands.
Love the Bedford air brake whistle - trademark sound
Used to drive the KM lorry with exact same sound.
We used to call them Bedford Squeekers 👍🏻🇬🇧
That engine sounds crisp!
hanson coaches hudderfield a mon my way to school 1974
where was this? thought i saw cheltenham racecourse
I love the sound from the old Sulzer Engines
Nice one. A couple of extra gears and some more soundproofing wouldnt go a miss 😀
that's wot makes it so lovely, if you want sound deadening, get on a new coach
That’s awesome