16314 Bristol LS - West Yorkshire

THE REAL BUS The Bristol LS single deck bus was produced around the same period as the Bristol MW. The vehicle was adopted as the standised single deck type by the Tilling group of companys. The vehicles entered service in the 1950's with many remaining active well into the 1970s. Further details can be found on www.bristolsu.co.uk site. THE EFE MODEL The Bristol LS model was added to the range at the end of 1993. The majority models have been issued in the somewhat plain Tillings red and green style liveries, this has resulted in most issues looking almost identical apart from fleetnames and route details. However within this mass of red and green several more distinctive releases can be found, such as those for Wilts & Dorset and Midland General. Two models were produced as blank Tillings base models, one in green, and the other in red. These were produced without fleetnames, destination screens, fleet numbers or registration marks, they were subsequently used for issues 16307, 16308, 16310, 16313, and 16315. It is known that a small quantity of both blank versions did escape the EFE warehouse during the mid 1990's. If you examine the barcode label on the box of any of the releases mentioned above you'll find that they show either 16305x or 16306x.