Bedford 97 vans: how many are still registered?
102still registered
Bedford 97 vans still registered with DVLA (licensed or SORN), across 9 recorded variants.
Most recorded on UK roads at once: 996 (1998 Q4) - 10.2% of that peak survives.
The decline has levelled off - survivor numbers have held steady over the last five years.
81 of the survivors (79.4%) are declared off-road (SORN) rather than taxed.
10.2% survives 1998 Q4 peak: 996
Every van drawn here is one still on the register. Pick variants on the left to colour them in.
Derivatives
DVLA also registers other body types under the Bedford 97 nameplate. Each is counted on its own page, so every figure on this one is vans only.
By year
All 102 surviving Bedford 97 vans, by the year each was built - not how many were on the road at the time. Across every year, 4 of these cars have gone since 2014, leaving 96.2% of the 2014 figure. That is the earliest real count of the same cars: DVLA publishes no production figures, so nothing here is a count of how many were built.
On the road over time
Total Bedford 97 vans registered (licensed or SORN) at the end of each year.
Engine size and fuel
What is on the road now: the surviving Bedford 97 vans split by engine capacity and by fuel, as recorded 2025. Engine sizes are DVLA's own bands and cover only the cars it holds a capacity for.
Engine size
Fuel
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