BRISTOL RELH/ECW A website about the original ECW body on the Bristol RELH chassis.

Bristol RE EFM 163 H

EFM163H was delivered as Crosville's CRG163 during 6 Mar 1970.

It had 47 coach seats in it's Eastern Coachways body, number 18140.
When built it was fitted with a 2 piece bus (raised) destination panel and a bus type door. (Illustrations)
Its chassis (number RELH-4-258) was powered by a Gardner 6HLX engine.

This vehicle is now preserved (Click here for the owner's website).

A model of this vehicle was produced by EFE (number 32202), details from http://www.britishmodelbuses.com/ or Buy it on ebay.

Crosville Bristol RELH/ECW coach EFM163H

Photo copyright: Carl Berry

Photographs

All links to photos shown below are to other Internet sites, all photos will be the copyright of their respective owners.
Where no copyright details are shown the photo is known to exist, but is not freely available.
There may be other photos on the Internet that I cannot show the links for. See 'Useful sites for finding pictures' on the links page.
For pictures in books click on the copyright link for more information.
** = Black and white photo, otherwise colour.

	Livery	Owner	Date	Location	Photo copyright	Photo link
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163			Rob Sly's site	Click Here
**	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163			Book-B&C Preservation mag.
**	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163			Book-B&C Preservation mag.
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163			Rob Sly's site	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163		Amlwch	eBay	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163	29 Dec 1972	Cardiff	Mike Street	Click Here
**	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163	13 May 1973	Oswestry	Book-Crosville 2
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163	1977	Oxford	Steve Annells	Click Here
	NBC Green/White DP	Crosville ERG163			Rob Sly's site	Click Here
	NBC Green/White DP	Crosville ERG163		Bangor	Martin Grosberg	Click Here
**	NBC Green/White DP	Crosville ERG163			Book-B&C Preservation mag.
**	NBC Green/White DP	Crosville ERG163		Bangor	Book-B&C Preservation mag.
	NBC Green/White DP	Crosville ERG163		Liverpool	eBay	Click Here
	Crosville Cream/Black (2)	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	Jan 2001	Manchester	Richard Jones	Click Here
	Crosville Cream/Black (2)	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	9 Jun 2002	Penrhyndeudraeth	Book-Crosville Enthusiasts Club
	Crosville Cream/Black (2)	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	9 Jun 2002	Bangor	Richard Jones	Click Here
	Crosville Cream/Black (2)	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	Mar 2003	Bangor	Richard Jones	Click Here
	Crosville Cream/Black (2)	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	23 May 2003	Bangor	Richard Jones	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	29 Apr 2004	Caernarfon	Transport Images	Click Here
					Transport Images	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved, rear view	May 2004		Book-B&C Preservation mag.
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	May 2004	Bangor	Book-B&C Preservation mag.
					Book-B&C Preservation mag.
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	3 May 2004	Llandudno	Book-B&C Preservation mag.
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	3 May 2004	Bangor	Book-B&C Preservation mag.
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	3 May 2004	Llandudno	M A Penn	Click Here
					Richard Jones	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved		Bangor	Richard Jones	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved			Rob Sly's site	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	23 May 2004	Llangefni	Richard Jones	Click Here
**	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	12 Jun 2004	Holyhead	Crosville Enthusiasts' Club (1967)	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	12 Jun 2004	Bangor	Book-Crosville Enthusiasts Club
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	19 Sep 2004	Birkenhead	Richard Jones	Click Here
					Richard Jones	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	19 Sep 2004	Liverpool	Richard Jones	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	19 Sep 2004	Birkenhead	Richard Jones	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	2005	Caernarfon	Ken Lansdowne	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	2005		Ken Lansdowne	Click Here
					Ian Simpson	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	30 Apr 2006	Great Orme	Ivor Bufton	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	30 Apr 2006	Llandudno	Dave Henderson	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	30 Apr 2006	Abergele	Ivor Bufton	Click Here
					M A Penn	Click Here
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	2 Aug 2008	Amlwch	Richard Jones
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	2 Aug 2008	Bangor	Richard Jones
					Richard Jones
					Richard Jones
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	3 May 2009	Llandudno	Carl Berry
					Carl Berry
	NBC Express	Crosville CRG163 Preserved	25 May 2010	Caernarfon	Mark Youdan	Click Here

Diary for EFM163H

Date	Event	Owner	Number	Allocation	Details	Livery
6 Mar 1970	Built for:	Crosville	CRG163	Liverpool		Crosville Cream/Black (1)
By Nov 1972	Repaint				Mike Street	NBC Express
14 Jul 1974				Liverpool	Crosville allocation sheet
Oct 1976				Merseyside division
By Jan 1979	Repaint	Crosville	ERG163		Rob Sly's site	NBC Green/White DP
By Jan 1979	Renumbered				Rob Sly's site
Dec 1980				Amlwych
Dec 1982				Amlwych
Oct 1983	Withdrawn by:	Crosville
Nov 1983	Repaint	Crosville	ERG163			Crosville Cream/Black (2)
By Dec 1984	Sold to:	Bate			Rob Sly's site
	Repaint	Bate	CRG163		Rob Sly's site	Crosville Cream/Black (2)
Jun 2002	Sold to:	Jones			Rob Sly's site
May 2004	Repaint	Jones	CRG163		Rob Sly's site	NBC Express
	Current	Jones			Richard Jones	NBC Express

Owners shown above in Green are preservationists, Red are dealers, Blue for PSV use and brown for None-PSV.

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