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A Hymek drive for me one day hopefully.

Sounds great. The pump timing sounds absolutely spot on. 👌👌 slightly advanced by the sounds of the bark. Exactly what you need for the non turbo

Slow down

Spaceship.

Fancy driving that to Edinburgh ? Though I’m sure a lot of drivers did very successfully.

That old Bedford sounds sweet as a nut, takes me back to my school days.

It's running great 👍

Great to drive,this one will have a 466 cu in engine but later ones had 500 cu in to get them uphill you had to change down early and keep the revs up. They went round corners like a train on a track

These were our 70's/80's school buses, three-to-a-seat so 75 kids, & if occasionally a few extras, two kids sat on the carpeted engine cover there next to the driver....! When the other sister skool bus broke down on the way back to our village, the driver filled up the centre aisle with kids off that bus also, there must have been 100+ moaning & grumbling kids on the bus that day....! Only Radio 1 & Steve Wright In The Afternoon & Mr Angry from Purley lifted our spirits..!

(Opens the throttle on the 37) Oh my, are we supposed to rocket off from the station?

5 speed Turner gearbox?

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

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?

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

Reminds me of primary school journeys in late 80s on 45 seater coach plated SOR944G.

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.

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.

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.

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

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