Good Friday 5 April 1985 (approx. 0945) – Percivals Motors (Oxford) Limited 74 (XWL 539) seen at Holywell Row near Mildenhall when working the 0845 Cambridge-Lowestoft service 747, a cross-country service between Bristol and Lowestoft worked jointly with Premier Travel and National Express.

This was day 2 of a diagram that alternated with Premier Travel and covered the 0845 Cambridge-Lowestoft (1230) run returning as the 1310 Lowestoft-Oxford (1955) run.

It is a Plaxton Supreme bodied Bedford YMT that was new to Percivals in April 1980 registered CJO 322V. Nowadays vehicles that have carried a cherished re-registration will revert to the originally assigned number when the cherished registration is transferred. This wasn’t the case back then and this coach subsequently became GBW 96V.

I had taken a few photos of this coach as it progressed, first at Barton Mills then Field Road in Mildenhall before taking this one. In order to serve RAF Mildenhall (the airfield stands in the background) the coach had travelled up and back to the roundabout giving me plenty of time to get in position as it returned.