boden:
I cant remember for certain, but it was as 68 or 69 when I was doing the school holidays riding out thing and we were in the Addingahm /Crosshills area of Yorks when Dad let a solo BRS Bistol out of a a side road I was keen on truck spotting then but I cant recall seeing any others and I believe BRS kept them for 7 years so there would be few in their fleet by then as 240 points out.Another operator was a firm called Roadferry who may have worked out of Preston and I think are still around, though I thought the Bristol was BRS design with a production run just for them,as were the previous 8 leggers-its all interesting stuff though
Yes, Roadferry are still around, now based in Leyland, and are a descendant of Containerway & Roadferry, a state-owned business which would have been entitled to buy Bristols too.