Bristol Commercial Vehicles Enthusiasts

VRs IN NON-PCV USE IN CENTRAL ENGLAND

This page shows the many VRs currently in non-passenger carrying roles in Central England. Where the vehicle history has been added to the site, click on the registration number to link to it, otherwise information is temporarily restricted to what you see on this page. Please let me know if you own (or know someone who owns) a VR in Non-PCV use that I don't know about. I would also be very pleased to receive more recent photographs of any of these VRs to include here.

Last Updated : August 9th 2010 (OFA647P sold)

Chassis

Registration (Click for History)

Original Owner

Current Owner

Current Photo

Last Reported

Comments
VRT/LL3/129 OSR195R Tayside 195 Maynard Arms, Bagworth

Photo : AEC590

July 2009 Playbus. Pub closed and vehicle vandalised, by 7/2009
VRT/LL3/149 UFW39W Lincoln 39 Dickinson, Wrangle Common December 2005 Private playbus
VRT/SL/257 OCS577H Western SMT B2247 Richardson Developments, Oldbury

Photo : Rob Bennett

November 2006  
VRT/SL2/377 HKE678L Maidstone & District 6678 Coney Green Farm, Stourport-on-Severn

Photo : eBay

June 2009  
VRT/SL2/985 JWL995N City of Oxford 442 Wildwood Christian Fellowship, Stafford

Photo : Wildwood Christian Fellowship

December 2009   Mobile exhibition unit. Withdrawn with engine failure, c12/2009
VRT/SL3/191 MAL792P Trent 792 Derbyshire Association of Sub Aqua Clubs, Matlock

Photo : From the Internet

August 2006 Submerged in a gravel pit at Gilldenburgh Water Diving Centre, near Peterborough
VRT/SL3/225 MEL560P Hants & Dorset 3339 Spratton Folk Festival

Photo : Kevin Going

July 2008 Ticket office
VRT/SL3/265 LEU261P Bristol C5053 Peak Rail, Matlock July 1998 Static playbus
VRT/SL3/363 OFA647P Potteries 647 Etone School & Community College, Nuneaton

Photo : Darrell Ingram

August 2010 Sold to Mark Plant, Stoke-on-Trent (for preservation), 7/2010
VRT/SL3/372 PBD35R Northampton 35 Diocese of Birmingham September 2003 Playbus. Lettered for Starcity Entertainment Complex, Nechells, Birmingham and noted there, 9/2003
VRT/SL3/434 PBD40R Northampton 40 The Wonder Bus, Coventry

Photo : The Wonder Bus

November 2009 Playbus
VRTSL3-1024 VDV135S Western National 935 DJ Catering, Leicester

Photo : Lawrence Mayhew, courtesy VR South West News

February 2010 Mobile bar
VRT/SL3/1038 CBV20S Ribble 2020 Horner, Hail Weston

Photo : Dave Beardmore

June 2002 Converted for use as a burger bar
VRT/SL3/1360 VPF286S Alder Valley 956 Sandicliffe Garages, Birmingham (non-PCV)

Photo : Dave Franks

February 2003
VRT/SL3/1408 XDV600S Western National 1130 F S Distribution, Banbury August 2000 Promotional livery for Haagen Daaz Ice Cream
VRT/SL3/1454 WTG342T City of Cardiff 342 Willow Farm, Evesham

Photo : eBay

July 2009 Acquired for conversion to a mobile recording studio. Unconverted and for sale on eBay, 7/2009
VRT/SL3/1497 XAN431T AERE Escape the City, London   May 2010  
VRT/SL3/1544 OUD482T City of Oxford 482 Horrocks,Brockton

Photo : Neil Markwick

October 2007 Used as a static private playbus
VRT/SL3/1622 DWU294T West Yorkshire 1711 Specialist Spinning, Banbury   March 2009  
VRT/SL3/1837 FRP907T United Counties 907 Columbana, Oxford   August 2009  
VRT/SL3/2001 DWF194V, FHN931 East Midlands 1194 Napton Brickworks, Warwickshire March 2001 For conversion to a teabar
VRT/SL3/2030 KTL26V Lincolnshire 1943 Unknown owner in Stourbridge

Photo : Stuart Turner

September 2006 Kept at a pub in Lye, near Stourbridge
VRT/SL3/2101 ELJ219V Hants & Dorset 3427 Colombana, Oxford   April 2009  
VRT/SL3/2115 FAO418V Cumberland 418 Chris Coombs, Melbourn, Cambs

Photo : Dave Beardmore

April 2010  
VRT/SL3/2280 RMA437V Crosville DVL437 Unknown yard in Honeybourne

Photo : Ivor Bufton

May 2005 Used as an immobile storeshed
VRT/SL3/2272 KOO792V Eastern National 3074 The Missing Sock (public house), Stow-cum-Quy

Photo : Allan Macfarlane

July 2010 Converted for use as a mobile bar
VRT/SL3/2349 AHW198V Bristol 5147 Lawson Cooper, Sutton Coldfield

Photo : eBay

December 2009 Static caravan
VRT/SL3/2476 HWJ922W Yorkshire Traction 922 RAF Cranwell Gliding Club

Photo : Peter Horrex Collection

March 2000 Static airfield control tower
VRT/SL3/2539 LFJ846W Western National 1202 British Women Racing Drivers Club, Silverstone

Photo : Allan Macfarlane

August 2010
VRT/SL3/2605 WTU465W Crosville DVG465 Colombana, Oxford

Photo : eBay

April 2009  
VRT/SL3/2879 VVV951W United Counties 951 Booker Gliding Centre, High Wycombe

Photo : Glenn Knight

June 2010 Mobile waiting room
VRT/SL3/3008 BMA520W Crosville DVG520 Colombana, Oxford

Photo : Ian Wilson

April 2009  

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