"The film's cathedral city location of Gilchester is in fact Beverley, where I went to school in the 1960s. Pupils from my old school were used as extras in some of the scenes. There is a brief glimpse, as Colin Read noticed, of a pair of East Yorkshire Motor Services' Beverley Bar-bodied double deckers. They are on the bus stand at Beverley's Wednesday Market and are Roe-bodied Leyland PD1s, which were the backbone of the EYMS fleet for many years. Bedford OWB CDT673 is in the cream and black livery of Cherry's Coaches, who ran a Beverley town service until selling out to EYMS in the 1990s. Indeed, a profile shot of the Bedford shows the fleetname to be covered over.
John Wakefield adds, CDT673's body "looks to be a Duple Mark 2 bus body of which, according to Eric Ogden's Duple book 1976, 200 were built under Ministry of Supply contract from August 1945 followed by further contracts from the MoS during 1946. The curve at the back down from the narrow band between the beading would have been painted on at some later date. If you look closely you can see the beading going straight on."