Preserved Bristol RE CVL850D, now fitted with Gardner 6HLXB fuel pump 

That's one of the most tuneful Bristol RE's I've ever heard - sounds well healthy 🙂👍👏👏👏👏👏

Exceptional, thank-you: perhaps the best Express Service Coach ever made. Shame on the thugs that caused the end of both Bristol Commercial Vehicle works at Brislington and ECW at Loeestoft. Vandals they.

I remember going to Wales on one of these from Liverpool as a child. Loved the sound then and the look.

The mellifluous relaxed sound of the ultimate long distance coach! RE whine perfectly matches it's beautiful design - in a word - 'smooth!' Every aspect of this coach is so well considered, proportioned and balanced, it oozes power, trust and reliability - yet exudes an air of warmth, comfort and friendliness, a coach you know will care for you! I can't think of any vehicle I would prefer to spend the hours and the miles travelling in, nestled in the supreme comfort of it's elegant seats with their perfect back, neck and head support, gliding on it's (if fitted) air suspension whilst listening to the glorious transmission and masterful Gardner engine talking their way up through the gears until it finally clicks into the contented whine of 5th, where it will stay for hours on end, occasionally enhanced by the little 'sigh' exhalation of compressed air. No vehicle has ever been produced that synchronises so many of the essential elements of relaxed travel as the RELH. I've long thought that a Bristol RELH ECW mk1 deserves to be displayed in either the Design or Science Museum not only as a piece of British passenger transport design many years ahead of it's time, but also for it's perfect aesthetic and aural delights. There again, the RE's design essence and of course spiritual home, is to cruise the motorway - so it is there where it truly belongs! I would love to know if any one person at ECW can take credit for the RE mk1 design? If so he/she deserves to be celebrated. I've always had a suspicion that BR incorporated much of it's design elements into their later mk2 air conditioned carriages.

Hell, I love the sound of an RE. It brings back so many memories and 1403 is sounding so good and healthy now. I've got to say it, probably the best Bristol RE sound effects anywhere!

What a gorgeous machine! Certainly don't them like these anymore

WOW , WOW , WOW, a manual box RE Coach ,one of a handful roadworthy , i remember as an eight year old riding one of Southdown Motor Services Bristol RELL6G,s with a Marshall Body and that GORGEOUS Five speed manual box. She sings like Julie Andrews on weed, in essence a PROPER COACH, not like the volvo caetano crap .in the 1950,s60,s Bristol, like AEC, Crossley ,and Leyland fitted synchromesh boxes on some of their bus and coach chassis. CVL,s box if i am right ,is a four speed Spaceship (Bristol LS-MW) Gear Cluster with a lever operated overdrive fifth gear, re geared to suit the bigger 10,5 litre Gardner 6LX , with an inbuilt one to one transfer box taking the drive to the Lodekka type drop centre back axle. Siynchromesh fitted to second third ,and direct fourth, even with synchro ,a Bristol Box is a handful, Spaceship Drivers have muscles like Geof Capes in order to change gear on an overloaded five pot Spaceship 5HLW on Stroud,s fearsome hills. CVL,s driver would have an easier time bombing up and down the motorway on Lincoln London service. Put her in overdrive fifth and let one hundred fifty Patricroft ponies take the strain.

Looks like a great cruiser and fairly quiet too. It doesn't bark.

Wish my car's gearbox sounded like this 😔

Just wandered if there's a different firing order for the different engines and fuel metering and engine size

shame this bus is more gearbox sound than anything, cant appreciate the throaty bark of the gardner engine as much