Week commencing 24 June 1996 - The Smoke House Inn at Beck Row near Mildenhall was rather popular with a number of different tour companies large and small using it as a base for their five day tours to different East Anglian tourist spots like Cambridge, Constable Country, Norfolk Broads, Suffolk Villages etc. The coaches tended to arrive on Monday afternoons and leave on Friday mornings.

Left is Dawlish Coaches F996 HGE, a Plaxton Paramount bodied Volvo B10M new in March 1989 to Park’s of Hamilton. It was working for Majestic Tours.

Right: The 1994 intake of coaches to the Wallace Arnold Tours fleet included 15 bodied by Van Hool (L906-920 NWW), 29 by Jonckheere (L901-905/L942-965 NWW) and 21 by Plaxton (L921-941 NWW).
L909 NWW is a Van Hool Alizée bodied Volvo B10M new in March 1994.