Bristol Greyhound coach 2815 was delivered in 1951 and was an eight foot wide Bristol
LWL with Bristol’s own AVW engine and a fully fronted Eastern Coach Works 35-seat
coach body. After a full life on express services, she went into preservation with
the Company’s own preservation group, before passing on eventually to an Essex coach
operator who had her fully restored, although in the process preferring to replace
the original concealed radiator with a PV2 radiator. In this form the coach passed
to Holland.
In the spring of 2007 Mike Walker secured the coach for the Collection, and as at
the end of November 2007 she arrived back in the UK on a low-loader where she successfully
passed her MOT test. She has now been restored to her original enclosed front (with
parts donated by Tony Brown), has been repainted, and has received attention to her
engine – involving a new cylinder head – before being represented for her MOT at
the beginning of May, and she made her public debut at the Bristol Harbourside Rally
in May 2009.
