Setra is champ at Blackpool Rally
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)ACH OF THE YEAR at last aekend's National Coach Rally
Blackpool was a high floor rtra S215HD, the only Setra ltered and one of very few holly foreign coaches in the 'ant. NOEL MILLIER reports. The coach is one of two aerated by Charterplan, .eater Manchester Transport's ,aching wing, and is painted in
eye-catching metallic livery. mically, neither Setra nor Neoan, the other West German ingral coach manufacturer trying sell hard in Britain, exhibited ty coaches at Blackpool.
Driver of the year was Mal 1m Stephenson, who derered another exhibition of exrt driving in a Ford R1114 aerated by Bibby's of Ingleton. There were only 35 coaches in e rally, the majority with
ght: G. K. Kinch entered a Marton Pramount 3500-bodied Daf MB200 (FL.
'low: This Duple Carribean bodied tyland Tiger of Bostocks wort the tyland Trophy. Above: Coach of the Year at Blackpool was the Setra S215HD entered by Charterplan.
British coachwork first revealed at last year's Motor Show. Among the more impressive examples were a Duple Carribean-bodied Leyland Tiger from Bostocks of Congleton and a Plaxton Paramount 3500-bodied Daf MB200 from Kinch of Rothley.
On show for the first time were the Van Rooijen Odyssee coach on Volvo B1OM chassis, LAG Galaxy body on Daf SB chassis, Jonckheere's P99 Dafbased double-deck coach, and Leyland's Royal Tiger Doyen.
Among the integral coaches were a Van Hool Acron, Jonckheere and plaxton-bodied Scania K112 vehicles and a Bova Europa. Midicoaches were well represented with examples of the Robin Hood Krypton on Fiat chassis, the Reeve Burgess Riviera (on MAN), and the Imperial body on Mercedes-Benz chassis.
Trade exhibits included displays of catering equipment from Shades Technics and Nomad, as well as both radio communication and entertainment systems.