2086 (FAE 60) - a Bristol L-type tower wagon used by bristol Tramways as its W75

615 ATF was a living van that was eventually consigned to the fate of being a Bonfire Night pyre

Arriva engineer's car - no more then converted bus to carry him to a breakdown

Arriva Southern Counties trainer 514 (L514 CPJ), a Volvo B6-50 with Plaxton Pointer body

BAE 592 was a bristol 4-tonner fitted with a replica lorry body

Barton 49 (trade plate 466 NN) BTS2 modified to wrecker

Bedford YMQ mobile library with ECW front

Black & White, Cheltenham, recovery tug [Alan O. Watkins Colln]

Bristol MW/ECW wrecker in use in Stroud, Gloucestershire, with Cheltenham and Gloucester.

Bristol MW/ECW wrecker in use in Stroud, Gloucestershire, with Cheltenham and Gloucester.

Bristol MW/ECW wrecker in use in Stroud, Gloucestershire, with Cheltenham and Gloucester.

Bristol OC 527 HT was an AEC Matador made to look like a Bristol. It dwarfs the National Travel coach, DAK 214V, which is alongside.

Cardiff trolleypole lorry, from utility Bristol K

CIE ZO 6881 and EZH 17

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Volvo B10M/Duple was actually built as an instrument conveyor. It is seen outside Birmingham Town Hall.

Citybus 2540 (AXI 2540) is a Bristol RELL6G with Alexander bodywork operating as a mobile cafe near the M20 motorway and Folkestone Racecourse

CON 781C as a car transporter

CON 781C as a car transporter

Crosville DFG 33 (314 PFM) as a trainer for Western National. It was an FS6G.

Crosville G 881 (838 AFM) was a Bristol LD6G which - before it became a trainer - was fleet number DLG 881. It is seen in Aberystwyth.

Crosville L 321 was formerly ELL 921 (AJA 143B) originally North Western 143. It was converted to a wrecker as shown.

Devon General V21 (711 BOD) was a Morris 20 cwt parcel van

Don Everall's recovery vehicle - complete with 1960 Plaxton backend as a front screen!

Eastbourne Buses' 990 (Q424 CHH) on driver training duties, and sporting the Flagship fleetname

Eastern National 52 PPU

ETY 91L shows the disgrace some old buses can get into. This former Tyneside Daimler Fleetline with ECW two-door bodywork is being used to promote Lancashire for tourism - dustbins, wobbly big wheels, ripped-up paving slabs, and ignore the disabled parking bays!

FRT 29J

Gloucester City fire brigade Leyland Cub fire engine, BFH 972, being pensioned off

Hants & Dorset 2006 (BOW 162) was a Bristol L5G when new

Humberside Police DRH 454Y was a Ford/Plaxton, specially built "as a control room"?

Kings Ferry, Gillingham E75 DRM

Leicester 117

Leicester 117

Leicester 117

Leicester 117, where I recall it served a particularly good cuppa.

Midland Red

Midland Red - one of the converted Leyland Leopard/Plaxton wreckers assists a Leyland National (Alan O. Watkins Collection)

Midland Red 2269. Inside the ex-Harper, Heath Hayes, modified as a mobile classroom and driving instruction vehicle.

Midland Red 5278 (5278 HA) as a playbus in Oxford

Midland Red 5824 in its guise as a recovery unit with registration 370 HA

Midland Red 5831 nearing the end of its conversion from a coach into a wrecker. It was the last of the batch to be converted.

Midland Red Leyland Leopard/ Willowbrook (LS18-class) towbus from Bromsgrove heads along the Bristol Road into Birmingham

Mumford, Plymouth unidentified PD1 wrecker on trade plates 072 DR

National Welsh (ex-Red & White) R11.68 (RAX 11G) enjoying life as a transport 'caff' on the A47

National Welsh R11.68 (RAX 11G) serving a fair range of tea, coffee and crumpets

National Welsh U 5.61 (365 BAX) as recovery vehicle E 4 (026 BO). It was an MW new to Red & White.

Plymouth 125 (STK 125T) enjoying a political role

Pontypridd 17 (ETX 763)

Red & White L7.63 (AAX 21B)

Redcar, Tunbridge Wells KO 54, an Albion PM28 with Beadle bodywork, converted to a caravan role in the late Tirties and still being used as such in 2008

South Wales Transport 277 (NCY 277R) as recovery vehicle 65. It was a Ford R1014 with Duple Dominant E bodywork.

Southern National's treelopper at Bideford was bassed on 885 (HOD 12), a Bristol K-type

Strathcylde PTE A111 (A737 PSU) became later First Glasgow 31215 before being acquired by the Film and Television Transport Service

Strathtay Scottish ST 8 (VLT 42, ex-A126 ESG) behind the Scottish Omnibuses AEC breakdown lorry

Treelopper and veteran L-types

Trent 576 (TRB 576F) was a Bristol FLF converted to a pizza parlour - and clearly doing excellent business.

Western National 2082 (BDV 261C), TV 2 (VDV 782) and TV 3 (518 BTA)

Western National 2082 (BDV 261C), TV 2 (VDV 782) and TV 3 (518 BTA)

Western SMT B1243 (HSD 21) was a heavy cut-down Bristol LD6G wrecker renumbered DW 7030

Wilts & Dorset 622 (OHR 123), aBristol LD, and Hants & Dorset 1451 (5678 EL), an FS trainer.

Wolverhampton DUK 833 is towed out of the mud at Sandwell by a cut down BMMO 'decker

Yorkshire Traction Leopard wrecker operating for Strathclyde