A collection of images of Valley Rambler vintage coaches out and about. Mostly on weddings, some celebrations and at rallies or running days. The pictures are more or less in chronological order, so scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the most recent additions
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Our first outing in 2002 was to the Queen
Elizabeth Country Show on a scorching hot day in July. Arriving at
show, along a dusty track, Paul is driving in his usual summer attire of
shorts and a string vest!. Thank goodness the resolution of this
picture is not good enough to see this level of detail!
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| Parked up close to the entrance, JAB attracted a huge amount
of attention. This was before we had formed the business and a number
of people, noticing the "name" of the coach as "Valley
Rambler" made comment about remembering Valley Rambler from when they
were in business. Well, we can now reveal that it was a totally made
up name by the previous owner of the coach, but there was plenty of brand
recognition and so we "stole" the name.
A rather nice Triumph TR6 is parked in front of us (now, <<in best Loyd Grossman voice>> who could possibly own a car like that?)
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Probably the largest gathering of Bedford OB's to be seen is
at the "Bedford Gathering" held on the bank holiday Sunday in
August in Cambridge. In fact, it's the largest gathering of Bedfords in
the world that we know of.
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| We took part in the Bournemouth to RAF Colerne road run
organised by Commercial
Transport in Preservation in early September 2002 and were very
pleased to be awarded the "Norman Aish" shield for the best
single deck PSV in the run. Pictured here are the chuckle
brothers with the Mayor of Bath. At least Paul has a shirt on today,
even if he is wearing shorts... As reported elsewhere, we were
awarded the shield again in September 2003 for our Bristol MW. And
then in 2004, we were awarded the shield for "Best Bedford" for
our SB. And again, in September 2005, our MW was once again awarded the Shield
for best single deck PSV. The second picture here shows our MW resting at
Warminster during the 2005 event. Due to circumstances beyond
anyone's control, the event was changed a little for 2006, but we were
unable to enter as the clutch for the Bristol was under repair (and it was
about time we let someone else win some of the silverware!!)
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January 1st is the traditional date for the Winchester
running day, organised by FoKAB.
Pictured in the yard of Taylors of Sutton Scotney, we see both OB and SB
that ran in service on 1st January 2003. The white monster behind is
a former London Transport Titan that Kevin drove for a short time on
school runs around Winchester. Thanks to Max Taylor for kindly
letting us clutter up his yard.
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A few rally pictures:
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