Bristol Commercial Vehicles was a vehicle manufacturer located in Bristol, England. Most production was of buses but trucks and railbus chassis were also built. The Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company started to build buses for its own use in 1908 and soon started building vehicles for other companies. In 1955 this part of the business was separated out as Bristol Commercial Vehicles Limited. It closed in 1983 when production was moved to its then parent company Leyland.

The Bristol L type 17’ 6” wheelbase single deck chassis was introduced in 1938 as successor to the previous J type and some 800 had been built by 1942, when production ceased, to be resumed in 1946. The majority of the chassis built prior to the Second World War were L5Gs with Gardner 5 cylinder 5LW diesel engines. All pre-war L types had the tall “KV’ radiator and bonnet.

This Bristol L5G Single deck half cab with an ECW B35R body started service with the Eastern Counties bus company in February 1948. Its service ended in 1965.

The vehicle underwent an extensive body rebuild whilst at Phil James garage business on the A487 at Blaenporth and was then sold on and exported to Belgium for further restoration and body rebuilding. Now fully restored and returned to the road with a Dutch registration.