The Bristol C was a six cylinder chassis of 1929, one of the two new models, with the D, for which the company added a six cylinder petrol engine to its range. It failed to get past the prototype stage. The Bristol CV Buses website records that the C chassis were never fitted with bodies and were later rebuilt as E type trolleybuses, and its page for the E explains that both E chassis, built in 1932 with bodies by Beadle and Roe for Pontypridd and Doncaster, were original C type vehicles. The C is therefore best known as the base for those two trolleybuses rather than for any bus that carried its own name in service.
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Source The History of the Bristol C (Bristol CV Buses)
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Source The History of the Bristol C (Bristol CV Buses)
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1. Wikipedia: Bristol Commercial Vehicles
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Until 1929 these were all four-cylinder, but in that year a six-cylinder model was added to the range to power the new C and D models.
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Bristol Commercial Vehicles was a vehicle manufacturer located in Bristol, England.
View the SourceThe History of the Bristol C (Bristol CV Buses)
Of Make: Bristol Commercial Vehicles, History
never fitted with bodies but later were rebuilt as E Type trolleybuses.
In Group: Bus Chassis, History
never fitted with bodies but later were rebuilt as E Type trolleybuses.
Exemplifies: Road Transport, History
never fitted with bodies but later were rebuilt as E Type trolleybuses.
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