Hi does anyone remember anything about vantona from bolton or have any pictures of them thanks
i remember the scammell scarab’s running around bolton years ago but sadly i didnt take pictures back then , i wish i had though . 
p.s … i had a spell coach driving years ago and i used to bring the workers into work in the morning and then take them home in the afternoon from the vantona in farnworth … ohh the memories come flooding back
There’s a chap from North London area who has restored a Bedford O type tractor unit and trailer in ‘Vantona’ livery - Black and Cream, I’m sure someone on here will have a picture of it.
Hi Bowser, was the coach company you drove for in Farnworth called O’Briens?
Cliff
bowser:
i remember the scammell scarab’s running around bolton years ago but sadly i didnt take pictures back then , i wish i had though .p.s … i had a spell coach driving years ago and i used to bring the workers into work in the morning and then take them home in the afternoon from the vantona in farnworth … ohh the memories come flooding back
Carlc:
Hi Bowser, was the coach company you drove for in Farnworth called O’Briens?
Cliffbowser:
i remember the scammell scarab’s running around bolton years ago but sadly i didnt take pictures back then , i wish i had though .p.s … i had a spell coach driving years ago and i used to bring the workers into work in the morning and then take them home in the afternoon from the vantona in farnworth … ohh the memories come flooding back
no mate it was H+B coaches , it was owned by my friends dad … bye the bye my friend who’s dad owned it is registered on here …
lemonmouth:
There’s a chap from North London area who has restored a Bedford O type tractor unit and trailer in ‘Vantona’ livery - Black and Cream, I’m sure someone on here will have a picture of it.
Google “vantona bedford”, there’s pictures on Flickr
Bernard
bowser:
Carlc:
Hi Bowser, was the coach company you drove for in Farnworth called O’Briens?
Cliffbowser:
i remember the scammell scarab’s running around bolton years ago but sadly i didnt take pictures back then , i wish i had though .p.s … i had a spell coach driving years ago and i used to bring the workers into work in the morning and then take them home in the afternoon from the vantona in farnworth … ohh the memories come flooding back
no mate it was H+B coaches , it was owned by my friends dad … bye the bye my friend who’s dad owned it is registered on here …
That would be big jack harmer r.i.p.i knew him well.And his son your mate?
regards dave.
Sorry dafdave ive only just seen this , i was doing a bit of digging and it popped up .
Yes it was big Jack , big bear of a man with a very high volume
What a lot of people didnt know is that he also had a soft side to him , bit hard to find at times but it was there . 
bowser:
Sorry dafdave ive only just seen this , i was doing a bit of digging and it popped up .Yes it was big Jack , big bear of a man with a very high volume
What a lot of people didnt know is that he also had a soft side to him , bit hard to find at times but it was there .
No probs mate,you are right about the soft side of him,i knew him well and saw all sides of him[I think]it was sad for him to go the way he did.
regards dave.
Sausage fingers … 
I seem to remember Vantona from Farnsworth had a few light blue Bedford Marsden vans in the early seventies and they would often park up on Saint Mary’s Road car park underneath The Bullring in Birmingham.