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Derby City Transport, Willington Garage Fire
I know that the cut off for this site is in essence 1970, but I am trying to establish a list of the vehicles hired/loaned to Derby City Transport following the devastating fire in January 1976. Any information would be much appreciated. Andy Johnson 15/08/15 – 06:20 Andy, the fire at the Blue Bus (Tailby…
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Sheffield’s Utility Guys
The book, Sheffield Transport, by CC Hall, shows that Sheffield took twenty wartime Guys;- seven Mk I, thirteen Mk II. Number 487 is pictured in the book in all-over grey. Is it known how many of the fleet were painted thus? This is the only photo I have seen in grey, so was it only…
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Fleet Names & Crests
Over the years, we have lost large numbers of operators and their liveries. With Municipal operators, these losses may have come about through mergers (Blackburn and Darwen or Lancaster and Morecambe & Heysham at Local Government Reorganisation, for example) or through selling out to others (such as Southdown to Stagecoach and Bournemouth to Transdev). It…
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Prewar Rear Engined 40 Seat Single Decker
A friend has asked me to try and find out if anyone knows of such a vehicle as a demonstrator – make and specification unknown – which is believed to have run for Leeds City Transport in 1938 or 1939.I know nothing of any such episode or vehicle and I wonder if anyone has any…
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Maudslay Marathon VME 243
VME 243 a Maudslay Marathon with a Whitson body.I ask were Whitson main body builder to Maudslay? All I have on this one is a note stating Mark III. Any help would be appreciated re 1st owner it later appears in the North East around 1958.A photo of a Whitson bodied coach would be of…
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Gas Powered United Buses
I very much want to find confirmation of a wartime memory of mine which is being disputed.I can remember travelling on United buses along Scalby Road Scarborough from Scalby and into town.The dispute concerns the accuracy of my memory of the trailer towed behind the bus that looked for all the world like an old…
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1946 Swansea & Mumbles Railway
Just stumbled across a wonderful silent 1946 Swansea & Mumbles Railway film (link below). Apart from the sight of these magnificent trams—interior footage as well as exterior—there is a glimpse at 2:08 of an AEC Q s/d bus, a Dennis Lancet ditto and an AEC decker (S Wales Transport?), all stationary. At 2:32 a very…
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Mystery Skeleton
This half-skeleton of a St Helens front Leyland was seen 18/03/2015. It bears an East Lancs maker’s plate, is painted light blue inside the doors of the rear-platform and on the bonnet but has no other clues as to its previous owner other than a disclaimer notice which refers to ‘the corporation’. Any ideas from…
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Bedford Mulliner?
I found this at a garage on the Long Causeway about halfway between Burnley and Hebden Bridge.The photo was taken in 2008 but I’m sure it was still there late last year.The garage owner told me it was a Mulliner body do you know if he was correct. John Lomas 22/07/14 – 06:51 The bus…
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Info for a Dennis Required
I am writing to you from Johannesburg and would like to know whether anyone can identify the year of manufacture of the bus in the attached photo please.Our family hails from Walsall and my dear old Dad, Sidney Lockley, pictured in the photo, used to drive buses for Walsall Transport prior to WWII and after…