Mulleys up to about 2014

Saturday 25 June 2016 – Ipswich Transport Museum: Duple Vista bodied Bedford OB PV 9371 new to Mulleys Motorways of Ixworth in July 1949. Fleet number 26.

Saturday 25 June 2016 – Ipswich Transport Museum: Duple Vista bodied Bedford OB PV 9371 new to Mulleys Motorways of Ixworth in July 1949. Fleet number 26.

Saturday 25 June 2016 – Ipswich Transport Museum: Duple Vista bodied Bedford OB PV 9371 new to Mulleys Motorways of Ixworth in July 1949. Fleet number 26.

Saturday 25 June 2016 – Ipswich Transport Museum: Duple Vista bodied Bedford OB PV 9371 new to Mulleys Motorways of Ixworth in July 1949. Fleet number 26.

Saturday 25 June 2016 – Ipswich Transport Museum: Duple Vista bodied Bedford OB PV 9371 new to Mulleys Motorways of Ixworth in July 1949. Fleet number 26.

Saturday 15 February 1997 - Mulleys Motorways 77 (RGV 111), a Harrington Cavalier bodied AEC Reliance new in March 1961. The coach still survives in an unrestored state in 2014.

Mulleys Motorways WRO 444S seen in Barton Mills in November 1985 when working a school contract. New in October 1977 it was a Bedford YMT with bodywork built at the Van Hool McArdle factory in the Irish Republic.

Mulleys Motorways WRO 444S seen in Barton Mills in November 1985 when working a school contract. New in October 1977 it was a Bedford YMT with bodywork built at the Van Hool McArdle factory in the Irish Republic.

Mulleys Motorways WRO 444S seen in Barton Mills in November 1985 when working a school contract. New in October 1977 it was a Bedford YMT with bodywork built at the Van Hool McArdle factory in the Irish Republic.

Mulleys Motorways WRO 444S seen in Barton Mills in November 1985 when working a school contract. New in October 1977 it was a Bedford YMT with bodywork built at the Van Hool McArdle factory in the Irish Republic.

Wednesday 23 February 1994 - Mulleys Motorways EWR 166T seen passing through Barton Mills when working the 0728 hrs Lakenheath-Bury St Edmunds service. It was an Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol VR new in February 1979 to West Yorkshire Road Car Company (number 1718).

Friday 7 May 1993 - Mulleys Motorways EWR 166T seen at King Street, Mildenhall when working the 0728 hrs Lakenheath-Bury St Edmunds service. It was an Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol VR new in February 1979 to West Yorkshire Road Car Company (number 1718). Years later the bus station was built on this site. The building behind still remains to aid identification of the location. (As I write it is Abbotts Estate Agents)

Friday 23 March 1990 - Mulleys Motorways subsidiary Combs Coaches HGA 637T seen by the church in Barton Mills when working the 0730 Lakenheath-Bury St Edmunds school/college service contracted by Suffolk County Council. The Leyland Leopard chassis was new to Wallace Arnold Tours of Leeds in 1967 as JUA 302E. At that time it carried a Plaxton Panorama body but in April 1979, when owned by Allander Travel in Scotland, it was re-bodied with the Plaxton Supreme body shown here and registered HGA 637T.

Thursday 22 February 1990 - Mulleys Motorways (Combs Coaches) Plaxton Supreme bodied Bedford seen loading on Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds. The Combs fleet featured two Plaxton bodied Bedford 53 seaters which were BPU 222L (a YRT with Panorama Elite body new in July 1973) and HDX 666V (a YMT with a Supreme body new in November 1979). The Panorama Elite model was made between 1968 and the early 1970s with the Supreme model becoming available around 1974. I think the coach in this photograph is the latter.

Monday 1 May 1989 - FIL 4742 (originally WGV 865X) was one of eight Duple Dominant III bodied Leyland Leopards bought in 1982 by the Munson family owned Beestons Group. WGV 860/1X were assigned to Beestons Coaches, WGV 862/3X assigned to Mulleys Motorways, WGV 864/5X assigned to Combs Coaches and WGV 866/7X assigned to Corona Coaches. Seen turning out of Church Lane on to Newmarket Road in Barton Mills.

Monday 1 May 1989 - FIL 4742 (originally WGV 865X) was one of eight Duple Dominant III bodied Leyland Leopards bought in 1982 by the Munson family owned Beestons Group group. WGV 860/1X were assigned to Beestons Coaches, WGV 862/3X assigned to Mulleys Motorways, WGV 864/5X assigned to Combs Coaches and WGV 866/7X assigned to Corona Coaches. Seen having just turned out of Church Lane on to Newmarket Road in Barton Mills - The Manor stands on the left.

Friday 4 September 1992 - Mulleys Motorways ADC 366A seen in the coach parking area of Terminal 3 at Heathrow prior to working the USAF contract to RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath. It was a Van Hool Alizee bodied DAF MK200 new to Rules Coaches of Boxford in 1987 as AGV 260Y.

Wednesday 21 February 1990 - Mulleys Motorways JXI 9143, a Neoplan N116, seen in Flempton. New as DLB 866Y in to April 1983 to Bergland International Travel of Watford.