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With a huge range of alternative & personalised styles of coffin now available, a correspondingly wide variety of alternative forms of funerary transport can be provided for our clients. Whilst the traditional motor hearse can still play a relevant part in any style of funeral, clients can now choose from other styles of hearse, either to reflect aspects of the deceased's life or to further complement the style of funeral.
However, whilst there is a broad range of commercially available alternatives, a great many other options can be created from transport actually owned by the deceased, their relatives or friends. We have much experience of preparing clients' own vehicles for use, (a tractor & trailer, for example) and we will gladly advise you and help you to explore all available options.
We have set out below a selection of links to illustrate the variety of transport providers. (Please note that there may be practical considerations to be overcome with the use of some of these forms of transport, particularly in respect of the accessibility of some areas & locations. We will advise you accordingly):
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Alpha 4x4 Funerals offer you the unique opportunity of using the first Land Rover Hearse and Limousine Service in Great Britain, run by dedicated Land Rover enthusiasts.
Visit their website at: www.4x4funerals.co.uk
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offer a unique VW 'Type 26' Bay window coach built hearse, the only one of it's kind offered for hire. Simply known as 'the camper van hearse' the 1972 hearse has been sympathetically restored and painted white to match their fleet of stretched VW Beetle limousines and Volkswagen buses (campers).
Visit their website at: www.volkswagenfunerals.co.uk
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is the first ever UK company to manufacture and supply motorcycle hearses. They provide professional specification hearses that can perform dignified Motorcycle Funerals in all weather conditions. Their professional riders cover the whole of Great Britain.
Visit their website at: www.motorcyclefunerals.com
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is a vehicle with an altogether more theatrical and gothic appearance. This hearse is based around a motor-trike with trailer hearse conversion and should not be confused with the original, authentic motorcycle hearses provided by Motorcycle Funerals Ltd. as shown above. The Black Hawk Trailer Hearse is perhaps of very limited appeal but nevertheless we have included it here simply to illustrate the wide variety of alternative hearses available.
Visit their website at: www.blackhawkhearse.co.uk
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Vintage Lorry Funerals can provide a fully restored 1950 Leyland Beaver flat bed lorry.
Visit their website at: www.vintagelorryfunerals.co.uk
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Horse-drawn hearse - As the most commonly seen form of alternative funerary transport nowadays, horse-drawn hearses are widely available. Use of this form of transport is somewhat restricted by the geography of our locality, particularly with the hills, but we will be more than willing to advise you accordingly and help you to achieve your aim if at all possible.
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A variety of other traditional funeral vehicles can also be obtained, such as coloured vehicles in white, silver or even bright pink, Rolls Royce fleets and vintage hearses.
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Fred Stevens Funeral Directors
is a member of The National Association Of Funeral Directors
and abide by the NAFD Code Of Practice.
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