BEDFORD CF "LOTUS CARS"

[colinsays]

I am reserching photos of Bedford CF "Lotus Cars" vans that were used in Hethel factory 

As you can see in the photos they used single and double wheel rear axles

In fact one of them was used as a"test mule" for the Vauxhall engine used leter in the Lotus 62

The vans were yellow with green lettering

Above is an interesting link about them

https://bedfordcf2van.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html?fbclid=IwAR2AJPJzci8JupxK6278EajBF8UjrrVImTcslOMDUFLqQ1ezRjoAF6n_cCw

[Bibs]

I saw that last pic on facebook recently in a Lotus staff/ex-staff group and those cars were all mules for the 900 series engines. 

Here we are...

[ChrisJ]

The Vauxhall Viva RAH 713F may well still be around in a barn somewhere as the logbook was last issued 20 July 2005

[frb]

A couple of years back ( around 2013 ) there were several articles about the restoration of a Lotus 907 prototype engine ( I think no. 907 / 007, i.e. the 7th engine) on a website "www.annteak.com" .  Sadly it seems this site is now completely down.

IIRC the owner of that engine ( could his first name be Andy ? ) also owned RAH 713F in roadworthy condition fitted with its original Vauxhall engine but was going to fit the restored 907 into the Viva (?) . 

 

LEW apparently has a bit of backstory on the Viva on their page: http://www.lotusespritworld.com/EHistory/900EngineDevelopment.html