Harrington Legionnaire

Harrington Legionnaire

The Harrington Legionnaire was an 11-metre (36ft) passenger coach body built on three-axle Bedford VAL and two-axle Ford 570E chassis and built by Thomas Harrington in Hove, Sussex. The design was never a success, and very few were built.

Italian Job

The Harrington was famously featured in the 1969 film, "The Italian Job" [ [http://www.theitalianjob.com/cars_othervehicles.htm www.theitalianjob.com] Vehicles of the film] , "ALR453B", new in April 1964 to Batten of London.

For use in the film it was modified to reinforce the bulkhead behind the driver's seat, to allow for the sliding gold pallets. Even though, there was still enough force to in the event push the driver into the steering wheel.

True to the film story, the destination displays on the coach showed London-Turin and then the opposite during the film, and also displays 'Charlie Croker's Coach Tours' logos on the rear and both flanks, a reference to one of the film's characters.

After the film, this coach went back to coaching, mostly in Scotland, before being scrapped in the 1990s.

References

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Lane/1710/listing.htm Listing of all Harringtons ever built]


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