Last Updated : September 2007 (link to Operator Cross-Reference added)
Welcome to a yet another new branch of the popular Bristol Commercial Vehicles website. I have been keeping records of the whereabouts of RE single-decker survivors for over ten years now, and you will find below a list of companys who bought REs from new and for each company there is a separate list of known survivors with details of when they were last reported. Please feel free to contact me to update any information, contribute a photo (recent or otherwise) or to add a new survivor to the list.
While several well-known sources are acknowledged as contributors to data in this website, this is a personal list which I have been compiling from very widely-spread contacts over a long period and it is those people who I particularly thank for their kindness. They know who they are. Specific acknowledgements should go to The PSV Circle for the wonderful work they do to record vehicle movements in the UK and around the world, Buses magazine for the excellent UK coverage in Fleet News over many decades and the Bristol Interest Circle run by my friend Allan Macfarlane who have documented the slow demise of the RE over a period of twenty years. Finally, great credit should go to Ian Chancellor who kick-started interest in the preservation of REs in the early 1990s with his excellent series of booklets "REliable Bristol" which ran from 1993-1998. Ian tracked down many of the survivors single-handedly (and continues to do so), and a number of the entries on this site would not be there without his determination.
For a list of all operators of REs, both new and secondhand, visit the Bristol Operator Cross-Reference page.