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Spotted this old Bedford van whilst out and about in Paphos the other day...very quirky it had been set up as a wedding transport...only taken on my phone ...pity the background etc wasnt very interesing 
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A nice old find 
The front end looks like a 1960's to 70's Bedford lorry but the coach/Charabanc body looks like a much earlier type. So I wonder if it is a local Cypriot created vehicle???
The front end looks like a 1960's to 70's Bedford lorry but the coach/Charabanc body looks like a much earlier type. So I wonder if it is a local Cypriot created vehicle???
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Looking at some of the cars here...id say thays a high possibility...i dont think they have such a thing here as an MOTA nice old find
The front end looks like a 1960's to 70's Bedford lorry but the coach/Charabanc body looks like a much earlier type. So I wonder if it is a local Cypriot created vehicle???
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Standard of parking in Cyprus is as bad as it is here....
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A nice old find
The front end looks like a 1960's to 70's Bedford lorry but the coach/Charabanc body looks like a much earlier type. So I wonder if it is a local Cypriot created vehicle???
It's a Bedford TJ lorry chassis with locally built bus bodywork. It happened quite a lot in Cyprus to the point that it merits a mention in the Wikipedia entry for the Bedford TJ.
Seems they were made to a common design (even when on a different chassis) so quite possibly all made by one coachbuilder
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Malta used to have a lot of similar locally bodied buses built upon a chassis that was originally a lorry, albeit with a lot more variety of makers and designs.
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When we took on some land in the 1980s there was a Bedford tipper lorry very similar at front end 'included in the deal' it was a runner but not on the road there was no floor in the cab all rusted away.A nice old find
The front end looks like a 1960's to 70's Bedford lorry but the coach/Charabanc body looks like a much earlier type. So I wonder if it is a local Cypriot created vehicle???
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Thanks for the qualified insights especially in regard to the coach building......it does seem to be a 'common' design to the island.It's a Bedford TJ lorry chassis with locally built bus bodywork. It happened quite a lot in Cyprus to the point that it merits a mention in the Wikipedia entry for the Bedford TJ.
Seems they were made to a common design (even when on a different chassis) so quite possibly all made by one coachbuilder
Old Bedford buses in Northern Cyprus
By Ahmet Abdulaziz....... The Bedford buses were introduced in Cyprus during the late 1940s. They became the main source of inter village/city passenger transp
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Malta used to have a lot of similar locally bodied buses built upon a chassis that was originally a lorry, albeit with a lot more variety of makers and designs.
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Ignoring 
parking spaces is standard, this one from a mountain village on 2010.
parking spaces is standard, this one from a mountain village on 2010.