GHT127 - technical info

Bristol K5G

 

 

 

 
Manufacturer Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co.
Vehicle type: K5G (what does this code mean?)
Chassis No: 53.001
Registration No: GHT127
Date of first registration: March 1941
Fleet no: C3315 (Bristol)
5992 (Brighton, Hove and District)
992 (Brighton, Hove and District)
"Sandfields Belle", (Thomas Bros.)
8583 (Bristol, August 1974)
Body manufacturer: Eastern Coach Works
Body No: 6529 Series 1
Body type: O33/26R (what does this code mean?)

Rebuilt Brighton, Hove and District, January 1955

Body date: 1941
Original operator: Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co.
Withdrawn: December 1954
Subsequent owners: Brighton, Hove and District, January 1955.  Withdrawn September 1964.
North, Leeds (dealer), September 1964
Thomas Bros., Port Talbot, March 1965 to August 1969.
Bristol Omnibus Co., December 1969.  Withdrawn August 1976.  Reinstated March 1978, withdrawn September 1979.
Bristol Omnibus Preservation Society, October 1979.
Badgerline Ltd, Weston-super-Mare, December 1985.
Bristol Vintage Bus Group (on long-term loan from First in Somerset and Avon) August 2003.

On a misty January day

At the half-way stop on the London-Brighton run 1.5.05

Hawkesbury Upton Village show, 2006

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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