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362ALU, a rare surviving example of a C14F Plaxton Embassy bodied Karrier BFD3023 mini-coach, appeared at the Trans Lancs rally in 2016 after being off the road for 34 years.
It wore the fictitious fleetname of KR Tours of Ashton-U-Lyne, having been restored by professional vehicle restorers Ken & Ray Walsh of Manchester.
The coach was new in 10/60 to Kingsland, London SE5 and later worked for W.J. Neale's Coaches of Teddington and Tredgett of Clacton. In 1976 Alan Goodwin, founder of Go Goodwins of Manchester, bought it as the first vehicle in the fleet and he parked it on the drive outside his house at Benchill. By 1977 Alan Goodwin had sold it to George Marsden of Trafford Park, but in 1982 he bought it back as a potential restoration project. This was not completed and so Wesley Goodwin, who had become Director of Go Goodwins, sold the coach to the Walsh Brothers and they collected it on 6/4/16. The brothers tend to sell their restoration projects after a while and 362ALU was advertised in the 12/17 edition of Bus & Coach Preservation with an asking price of £20K. It is now no longer registered on the DVLA database as it has reportedly been exported to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia).
A photo of similar 14PKR can be viewed on this website along with 6666U and PFR727, which carry an earlier version of Plaxton bodywork. As most people will know, the chassis type was a popular choice for ice-cream vendors. Can't remember the last time someone came round selling ice-cream and did they have coconut flavour back then?!!

Photo taken by Peter Hadfield, Sunday 4 September 2016, Heaton Park, Manchester

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