BRS wrecker

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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Call anybody tell me which depot this was based at?

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Can you confirm the reg number ? Not sure if i have anything but will have a look through my BRS / Scammell stuff.

According to an article i have from 1979 BRS then had 100 recovery vehicles spread around 67 of its 160 branches.

Not sure how many Contractors they operated but heres a clipping of another one from 1980.

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DEANB:
Can you confirm the reg number ? Not sure if i have anything but will have a look through my BRS / Scammell stuff.

According to an article i have from 1979 BRS then had 100 recovery vehicles spread around 67 of its 160 branches.

Not sure how many Contractors they operated but heres a clipping of another one from 1980.

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That looks like a “DW” trade plate and the reg DW was Newport in old money.

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DEANB:
Can you confirm the reg number ? Not sure if i have anything but will have a look through my BRS / Scammell stuff.

According to an article i have from 1979 BRS then had 100 recovery vehicles spread around 67 of its 160 branches.

Not sure how many Contractors they operated but heres a clipping of another one from 1980.

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Sorry Dean but the only letters/digits i can make out are LH 427 ?
Thanks for trying

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DEANB:
Can you confirm the reg number ? Not sure if i have anything but will have a look through my BRS / Scammell stuff.

According to an article i have from 1979 BRS then had 100 recovery vehicles spread around 67 of its 160 branches.

Not sure how many Contractors they operated but heres a clipping of another one from 1980.

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If it helps any it will almost certainly be an ex Pickfords wagon.

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Ok should be simple.
Fleet number is RTS 1.
S denotes BRS Rescue.
If I could get to my old code book, I could tell you which depot RTis, but it is Western BRS.
REGARDS

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The reg no below the bumper is VLH 427G, this same Contractor appears in Nick Baldwins History of BRS, in the above photo’s though the V end of the Reg plate has been bent so the V can’t be seen and the G is almost hidden but it is definitely a G as VLH were 1968 G Registrations for London area. This was an ex Pickfords Scammell. The livery has changed slightly in the book photo to above and only has a freephone number of 4151 on the door. Franky.

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Suedehead:
0Call anybody tell me which depot this was based at?

Newport .