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A vintage tour bus comes home

May 2, 2011

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Tour operator restoring 1920 bus

By Glenn Swain

Restoring a vintage 1920s tour bus has become a labor of love for Herman Jones, owner of Mount Rushmore Tours in Rapid City, South Dakota. Jones first had the idea to restore an old bus back in 1970. Through the years Jones had refurbished a 1932 Ford five-window vehicle with a rumble seat that had been given to him in the 1960s, but he really wanted to restore a bus. He had seen a number of photos of original 1920s rag-top, 15-seat passenger tour buses that hauled passengers in the nearby Black Hills region.

The vehicles had been owned by the Black Hills and Western Tour Company.

“I decided I wanted to find one of these tour buses, so I started looking,” Jones says. “I found one in Minnesota and they wanted $56,000 for it. I didn’t have that kind of money then. Besides, if I did I would have bought a big bus and made some money with it.”

In 2005 he finally located one in Harmony, PA. The price was right at $6,000 and he bought it sight unseen over the phone.

“It was obviously a basket case,” Jones says of the condition of the bus. “A father and son got started working on it and got the motor finished, but eventually they had it more torn apart than together.”

While Jones had visions of using the bus for specialized commercial uses, his insurance man suggested he be very careful in putting too much money into the restoration. Vintage vehicles can sometimes be nearly uninsurable.

“There’s no reason to have one of these if you can’t use them,” Jones says. “My approach is to try to get it up to DOT standards. We’ll be able to use it for specialty events like weddings, anniversaries and parties. It’ll be more of a fair-weather rig than an all-weather vehicle.”

The cost to get the old bus back on the road is not cheap.

“We’ll easily dump $80 to $100,000 into it,” Jones admits. “That’s to make it look like is just rolled off the showroom floor. I’m one of those guys who says if we’re going to do it let’s do it right. Let’s not poor boy it where you have to fix or repair the thing constantly for the next ten years.”

Jones did confirm the bus was used in the Black Hills in the 1920s. He found a physician in Loma Linda, CA whose hobby is, oddly, keeping track of serial numbers of antique tour buses.

Jones is currently working with a guy in Illinois to buy and ship a new chassis for the tour bus so it can meet specifications. When found, it will be a simple matter of transferring the body onto the new chassis.

Jones predicts the finished project is maybe a year away.

“It’s a labor of love. It’s not something that we’re doing to make lots of money off of. It’s something to give somebody that nostalgic appeal that wasn’t expected. We try to give people what we promised them, and more.” B R

Bus Stop Classics: Bedford VAL (1963-1973) – English Charmer

(first posted 12/10/2016)     Here’s a bus with quite the lengthy filmography.  CC readers may remember it from the Beatles 1967 film “Magical Mystery Tour” or the 1969 movie “The Italian Job.”

It’s a Bedford VAL series intercity coach – they were quite common in the UK in the 1960’s and ‘70’s.  My first impression was it looked exactly like something that came from the imagination of Gerry Anderson or his collaborator, Derek Meddings.  It’s just a strikingly different design – with all sorts of interesting details to catch your attention.

Leyland 0.400                                                                          Bedford 466

It was built in two series; the Model 14 produced from 1963 to 1966, and the Model 70 from ‘67 – ‘73.  The main difference between the two was the powertrain; the Model 14 used a Leyland 0.400, while the Model 70 used Bedford’s own 466 cu in engine – both were six cylinder inline diesels.

Obviously the twin-steer, tandem front axles stand out –  their use allowed for smaller diameter, lighter wheels which resulted in a lower floor height for easier entry/exit and less intrusion into the cabin.

But just as striking are the large windows aligned side-by-side, making an extremely open and airy interior.  As was typical in the UK during this period, various different coachwork manufacturers provided bodies that went over the basic chassis.  This is an early Model 14 with a “Paramount” body by Plaxton – Plaxton provided a majority of the bodies through the 10 years of production.

This is a later 1969 Plaxton bodied Model 70 – named, accurately, the “Panorama Elite.”

Duple Coachbuilders was also a major supplier…this is a “Viceroy.”

And a Duple “Super Vega Major”…note the skylights in the roof.

Harrington also provided coachwork – this is a Model 70 “Legionnaire.”

Custom bodies could also be specified…that looks like Jack Brabham in the middle of the three gents in the door.

The coach came in a single axle version also (Bedford VAM), and while attractive, loses a great deal of its distinctiveness.

These are wonderful buses with lots of character.

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Always wondered what the 1967 Beatles Magical Mystery Tour bus was with the unique double steering axles. A Plaxton bodied 1959 Bedford Val Panaroma Elite. Was wondering if a CC would be written about this odd design. The huge glass area looks great. It’s now owned by the Hard Rock Cafe and went through a $100.000 dollar refurbishment.

I would think keeping the 2 axles in alignment would have been a challenge.

Alignment isnt an issue I drive an eight wheel truck twin steer bogie drive they are quite common here they are it bit different to steer at first but you soon get used to it.

Do you know, Bryce what advantages this design has over conventional set ups? Possibly safer in a tire blow out situation, or maybe increased load carrying capacity? More stable tracking down the road? Increased steering angle for sharper turns in tight spaces? Would have to be more expensive to maintain come front suspension overhaul time.

More load carrying capacity.

On trucks it gives better load distribution a larger turning circle less tyre wear and less load carrying capacity (higher tare weight)over a six wheel arrangement, also the 8 wheelers get stuck off road easier, They do drive ok though I’m in a 2011 Isuzu 400hp at the moment not too bad though its on steel springs, gets a bit bouncy crossing paddocks empty.

It’s a combination of increasing the payload capacity of the vehicle and not exceeding the individual (legal) maximum axle loads.

What has become common now, is that the second steering axle has moved further to the back. What you get then is one front axle and three rear axles, instead of two front axles and two rear axles.

The reason the Val had two front axles was to allow for smaller wheels and tires which allowed for a lower floor, and therefore a lower overall height. One axle with that tire size couldn’t handle the load.

I think 67Conti’s question is about twin steer axles in general, not about the VAL specifically.

Thanks for the info, fellow CC’rs.

I’m driving an 8×4 Freightliner Century class currently the drop arm on the second steer axle had worn splines so the two steer axles werent operating in sync that makes corners interesting to say the least but this truck is well past 1.6 million kms 1million miles so wear and tear is to be expected, luckily there are several dead Freighties in our yard and one yielded a good set of drop arms and the problem was solved the second time it happened, Biggest issue with American 8x4s is the punishing ride European and Japanese 8x4s are more driver friendly and smoother but our fleet is 99% American brands.

Hi , being how I am the owner of the original Magical Mystery Tour Bus , I can tell you that all your information noted here is unfortunately incorrect. First of all the bus is a Bedford VAL Panorama 1,Type 14 and it is from 1967.

This information is incorrect. The MMT Bus is a Plaxton Bedford VAL Panorama 1, built in May 1967.

Great looking buses. The tandem front axles and huge glass area give them a distinctive style – too bad we’ve never seen them in North America.

Increasingly large glass areas were very much a feature of British coaches from the end of the ’50s onwards. Plaxton took the lead with the wide windowed ‘Panorama’, enshewing the curved toplights in favour of taller side windows combined with a flatter roof then as Duple was playing catch-up, in 1968 they introduced even taller curved glass for the ‘Panorama Elite’ range which set the style for most coaches in the UK (and quite a few continental ones) until the end of the 1970s. Of course, the sun never shines much here so you would never end up sweltering in the heat with just warm air coming through the vents… no… never… *cough, cough*

Are tandem steerable axles illegal in the USA? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a vehicle so equipped, whereas it seems it used to be (still is?) quite common in the UK and, to a lesser degree, on the continent.

Tandem front axles common in western Canada particularly with large dual-axle trucks used in the oil patch. I’m going to assume they are also legal in the rest of the nation. My fellow Canucks elsewhere can confirm that.

Tandem front axles are legal in the USA but are rarely seen because our axle loading and axle spacing rules don’t create the need. I’ve seen a photo of a late 70s Kenworth K100 cabover with a European style 4 axle layout for some sort of specialty application and a lot of mobile cranes have twin front axles. Truck practice in the US tends more towards adding an axle at the back, as seen on dump trucks and cement mixers in some states where they have an extra axle on a folding “stinger” that extends behind the truck when loaded.

Nice! There is something I find highly attractive about this coach, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.

I can’t believe nobody has mentioned “The Italian Job.” In the 1969 original, a 1964 Beford Val was converted for use as a car hauler(and disposer). The movie ended with the cast trapped in the bus as it teetered on the brink of falling off a cliff.

As i was looking at the pics, I recalled that bus from the movie. Those 4 steerable front tires prompted the memory. They got quite the workout on that mountain road in the film.

The ending was supposed to be a cliffhanger (hah! pun) for the unmade sequel. BMC, in a very shortsighted decision, refused to donate any cars for what can arguably be the iconic movie about the Mini.

That was my first thought too, the original Italian Job. Never knew what that bus was, with its oddball twin front axle setup. Great movie but man oh man did that ending cause a WTF moment!

Yes, the Bedford VAL is a very distinctive chassis. There are modern three axle coach chassis nowadays, but they all have the twin axles are to the rear. The 1st, 4th, 5th & 11th pictures are all Plaxton ‘Panorama’ bodies (‘Paramount’ was a 1980s Plaxton body). The 10th is Plaxton too, but probably an Embassy which had more window pillars (OK, that one doesn’t have many windows!). They’ve been in films too: the Beatles ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ coach was a VAL/Panorama combination while the Harrington Legionnaire though rare is famous for being the getaway coach rocking on the cliff-edge at the end of the original ‘The Italian Job’.

(Heh, took ages to type that – so missed the other comments)

fine looking coach on a well respected[in ex brit.countries] bedford chassis and powertrain–bedford trucks and buses played a big part in moving produce and people in southern–central africa after ww2—GM should be proud of its uk subsidiary–VAUXHALL MOTORS

Quite the bus and I got your comment about Gerry Anderson.

The Bedford VAL does look like something you’d see in the old Thunderbirds, Supercar, Fireball XL5 and Stingray TV shows.

Thanks for this Magical Mystery Bus Tour! Always loved these buses, even more so since seeing them in the movie.

Obligatory pic of the MMT bus, a Bedford VAL Plaxton Panorama II OOR. Is this the bus most featured in British cinema other than the double deckers?

The Panorama II* body was an additional variant (not a replacement) offered without the thick, ribbed chrome front waist trim but with sliding ventilator at the top of the windows, rather than the interior ventilation nozzles used in the Panorama I. The original Magical Mystery Tour coach was a Panorama I but several similar VAL/Plaxton coaches have since been painted in the MMT colours, like the one above. The original version from the film is shown in the post by Philip below where the driver has the white outfit and hat.

* The Panorama name was used for several successive Plaxton coach bodies from 1959-68 without clear demarcation (the I & II models, if anything, confuse the situation!).

We must have been posting simultaneously…

And nobody’s mentioned Magical Mystery Tour yet!

No need to apologize of course, and what a great find it is ! I really like the color scheme on the coach in the first picture.

Never saw one “in the metal”. Back then most Euro-countries had their own independent bus and coach manufacturers. The starting point was a rolling chassis, supplied by a domestic or foreign truckmaker. Often these were small, long-standing, family-owned companies. Meanwhile they have all stopped, merged, been taken over or have just gone bankrupt.

Well, in Europe there was the Neoplan Megaliner…

Plaxton is still going, though I think it’s the only major British coach builder left, even if it isn’t actually independent any more. http://www.plaxtonlimited.co.uk/ The Bedford name was dropped way back in 1991.

So very beautiful .

I saw the first pic. and instantly thought of ‘ The Italian Job ‘ as I’d seen it first run in a Movie Theatre way back when….

Neat bus! I always figured the one in Magical Mystery Tour was some psychedelic custom, though obviously I didn’t put any research or thought into that. Does anyone know or able to speculate why the tandem is in the front instead of the rear? Is there a mechanical advantage?

Did you read the post? This is from it: Obviously the twin-steer, tandem front axles stand out – their use allowed for smaller diameter, lighter wheels which resulted in a lower floor height.

The big front wheel housing/hump on buses, unless they’re high-floor types, are annoying, as they intrude substantially into the seating/leg room area. By using two small wheels/tires, it eliminates the intrusion. it takes two of these small wheel/tires to give adequate carrying capacity compared to on large one.

This takes me back to 1971. 11 years old, fresh off the plane from New Guinea. We took a day tour from London. 46 years later, I don’t remember where we went. I still remember the “Panorama Elite” though. The twin steer was novel too.

beautiful coaches, thanks for the post. I am waiting with baited breath to see one on the Neoplans and another on the Commers and others powered by the Rootes TS-3 engine. Great stuff.

The twin front axle was chosen because Bedford did not want to develop a new {7T] front axle .They built a few petrol engined ones too.The Commercial Motor archive is on line..book a day or two off…

Memories here of school outings in Bedford VALs and other Plaxton Panoramas (perhaps the most common 1970s coach body in the UK).

Your video choice is good too. Not only is Showbus the best bus show I have ever seen, but the operator whose VAL is featured, Kenzies, is still going strong and is based just a couple of miles from where I am now, and I have just driven past the garage featured.

Kept looking harder on the video to see exactly where it was, and recognised most of the roads.

Great work, Jim!

Very beautiful buses–the huge windows and clean lines of the sides give it a mid-century sensibility, but the grille and lamp designs show a clear kinship to late 50’s early 60’s automotive designs. And it works together wonderfully with the twin front wheels. I can’t think of any buses on this side of the pond with the same type of design–our New Looks and Scenicoaches may be iconic but they’re far more staid-looking.

Imagine the huge windows in combination with a modern, efficient A/C system? The perfect tour bus. The Duple Super Vega Major could be ideal with the very Samba-like roof windows. (Just don’t roll it as I’m sure those thin pillars wouldn’t fare well.)

I am fairly sure that my father, Maurice Platt, came up with the unique design for a bus chassis with four steerable front wheels while he was Chief Engineer at Vauxhall in the 1960s. I remember him coming home from work, extremely enthusiastic, after the first test-drive. In his mind, the primary purpose of the design was that it greatly improved the ride. Recall, roads were not always as smooth, then, in the UK, as they are today. Three axles instead of two made a significant difference–or so he claimed.

So why not put the two axles at the rear? He seemed to feel offended by the tire-scrubbing that would occur when going around corners. Appropriate geometry on the front axles enabled the wheels to roll without significant abrasion.

Today of course we often see trucks in Europe that have not two but three wheels inline at the rear. But these vehicles are presumably built to run primarily on divided highways without sharp curves. In the early 1960s, in the UK, such highways barely existed.

It’s worth noting that the same layout of 2 steering axles in front and a single rear drive axle was common on trucks in the UK and Spain from the 50s to the late 70s/early 80s. The Spanish claimed the twin steering helped in the mountains and the British did it for some combination of axle loading and handling.

The VAL wasn’t the first bus chassis to have two steerable front axles. The Leyland Gnu and Panda were built in the late 1930s as derivatives of the Tiger. In the 1930s the maximum length for a two axle bus was 27ft 6in, three axles vehicles could be 30ft. VALs were seldom seen in the fleets of large stage carriage operators because they were not really designed for the intensive operations involved. North Western Road Car bought 10 in the mid Sixties to replace some elderly front-engined Bristol L5Gs on a route that had an extremely low bridge under a canal. None of the underfloor engined vehicles could fit under the bridge but the VAL could when fitted with a special body by Strachans that had a roof contoured to match the bridge. When the VALs wore out they were replaced by Bristol REs with a special ECW body that had a similarly contoured roof. There’s an article from the Commercial Motor archive about North Western’s VALs at http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/7th-august-1964/30/special-val-btu-north-western and a short video showing one of the survivors of this batch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4lBQ960LRo Thank you for writing up the VAL story.

What would have been the passenger seating capacity on the “Magical Mystery Tour” coach – the Bedford VAL Plaxton Panorama II OOR?

Hi Ken , I can tell you that my original MMT Coach has 53 seats . I don`t know how many seats are in asked about Panorama II

The VAL must rank as one of the most Amazing and Beautiful Coaches built in that era. The Twin-Steer / Chinese six layout just added loads of ‘LOOK’ to the Coach. The Coaches massive glass areas certainly set This COACH Way out there in Luxury terms, and it Certainly spoke of ‘NOT’ being a common or garden ‘BUS’ ! The steering layout gave added security in steering cornering abilities, and also in case of tyre problems; Along with the smaller wheel diameters, these allowed lower floors, easier access and reduced cabin intrusion of the wheel arches. The downside came with Constant reported Poor service brake performance by Drivers,, this being put down directly due to to the Smaller Wheels of which also meaning smaller Brake Drums, Linings & widths of linings. There may have been an error in design calcs when matching service brake retardation to the Coach in-service weights with a full load of passengers, Fuel & luggage?? This also may have been a factor as to just what exactly Killed-Off The VAL Design in future years.. ( As an aside, just look what happened to the Italian Gold Carrier??..) Whatever though; One Truly Amazing Coach, and a Big Well-Done to All that keep such in preservation for the rest of us to continue to enjoy!

Chinese six is a different layout and common today, single steer axle dual wheel drive axle and single tyred lazy axle behind the drive very very maneuverable I drove a used import Hino tanker set up that way it was like a car in town situations and very short wheelbase not out of its depth in supermarket car parks.

Many of these were supplied with aftermarket retarders to compensate for the poor service brake performance. An unfortunate side effect of the low floor design was that the front mounted engine didn’t fit under the floor, it lived in a tall engine hump alongside the driver and was apparently very noisy. It’s important to remember these really were from a different era. The 466 while a reliable engine was only around 140 hp, non turbo meaning relatively sedate performance. VALs are extremely rare today. Coaches then were very lightly constructed from a wooden frame with aluminium panels, the wooden frame could and did rot out relatively quickly.

Does anyone out there know whether City Coaches used them on their Wood Green to Southend-on-Sea route please? John Smith, the past Chairman of Buses Worldwide mentioned a similarly configured coach to me in an e-mail today but this Operator doesn’t get a mention above. Also there’s the one that adorned the roof of the Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea for some years – where is it now?

I spent a little bit of time over in England in the late 60s-early 70s and not much, vehicular or otherwise seemed very modern. I liked my visits, don’t get me wrong, but it’s both an old country with a lot of history and at that time still recovering from WWII. Buses excepted. The large windows especially, but just overall, they seemed much newer and more modern than US buses. As a youth/young man I was impressed. With the wood frames mentioned earlier they may not have been more modern, but they looked like it.

Magical Mystery Tour. I had that album, probably still do, and I don’t remember that bus at all. A bit of research suggests it was in the movie, not the album cover, so at least that part of my memory survives.

Nice looking buses though, brought a smile to my face.

British racing privateer Tony Dean converted one to serve as transport for his Porsche 908 during the 1969 Can-Am season.

Reference to ‘Thunderbirds’ is apt, because a real life version of Lady Penelope’s pink Rolls Royce was based on one of these chassis.

Great to see ‘Jervaulx Royale’ – I’d often go to school on it!

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Posted: November 8, 2023 | Last updated: November 8, 2023

The country-pop icon was not on the bus, which crashed on a highway between Winnipeg and Saskatoon in her native Canada

Members of Shania Twain 's crew were hospitalized Wednesday following a traffic accident in Canada in between dates of her Queen of Me Tour .

“One crew bus and one truck from the Shania Twain - Queen Of Me tour were involved in a highway accident driving between Winnipeg and Saskatoon," Twain's management company, Maverick Management, tells PEOPLE in a statement. "Multiple vehicles encountered dangerous driving conditions due to inclement weather. Members of the production crew who require medical attention have been taken to nearby hospitals."

Twain, 58, was not on the bus and is safe.

"We are incredibly thankful to the emergency services teams for their quick response and ongoing support," the statement continues. "We ask for patience as we look after our touring family.”

The "Any Man of Mine" singer kicked off her Queen of Me Tour in Spokane, Washington, on April 28, and she's traveled across the U.S., Canada and Europe since. The country-pop icon last performed at the Canada Life Center in Winnipeg on Tuesday and is scheduled to hit the stage at the SaskTel Center in Saskatoon on Thursday.

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Members of Shania Twain’s concert crew were hospitalized Wednesday after a crash between tour stops in Canada.

A crew bus and a truck from Twain’s Queen of Me tour were involved in the crash on a highway as they were traveling between concerts in Winnipeg and Saskatoon, Maverick Management, Twain’s management company, said in a statement.

“Multiple vehicles encountered dangerous driving conditions due to inclement weather,” the statement said. “Members of the production crew who require medical attention have been taken to nearby hospitals.”

Twain was not on the bus and is safe, a representative said. 

Twain kicked off the tour April 28 in Spokane, Washington, and has performed shows across the U.S., Canada and Europe. 

The Queen of Me tour is scheduled to make its next stop Thursday in Saskatoon. It concludes Tuesday in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Rebecca Cohen is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.

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Shania Twain's tour crew injured in rollover bus crash in Canada

The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter was not on the bus at the time of the accident.

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Members of Shania Twain 's production crew were injured in a rollover bus crash near Wolseley, Saskatchewan, in Canada on Wednesday morning.

Maverick Management, which represents the Canadian singer-songwriter, confirmed to EW that one crew bus and one truck involved with Twain's Queen of Me tour were involved in the highway crash, which stemmed from "dangerous driving conditions due to inclement weather."

"Members of the production crew who require medical attention have been taken to nearby hospitals," Maverick said in a statement. "We are incredibly thankful to the emergency services teams for their quick response and ongoing support. We ask for patience as we look after our touring family."

Twain was not on the bus at the time of accident.

According to a news release , Royal Canadian Mounted Police responded to the scene of the crash after 7 a.m., and 13 people were treated for non-life threatening injuries.

Twain, a Grammy-winning, chart-topping artist known for hits including "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" and "That Don't Impress Me Much," performed at Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg the night before the crash, and is set to take the stage at SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon on Thursday. The Canadian leg of Twain's tour wraps at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Nov. 14 before she kicks off her Las Vegas residency next May at Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

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Shania Twain's tour crew taken to hospital after bus crash

The crew members were on a nine-hour drive between concert dates on Shania Twain's Queen Of Me tour when their bus was involved in a crash.

Thursday 9 November 2023 15:08, UK

Members of Shania Twain's production crew were taken to hospital in Canada after their tour bus crashed. 

The bus and a truck were travelling from Winnipeg, where Twain performed on Tuesday, to Saskatoon - a drive lasting around nine hours.

The two concerts were part of the star's Queen Of Me tour.

Maverick Management told the PA news agency one crew bus and one truck from the tour were involved in a "highway accident".

"Multiple vehicles encountered dangerous driving conditions due to inclement weather," a spokesperson said.

"Members of the production crew who require medical attention have been taken to nearby hospitals."

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The firm added: "We are incredibly thankful to the emergency services teams for their quick response and ongoing support.

"We ask for patience as we look after our touring family."

Twain is expected to perform at the Sasktel Centre in Saskatoon on Thursday evening.

The 58-year-old has four dates left to perform in Canada before her third Las Vegas residency from May to December next year.

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