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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…
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Six Wheel Holiday Caravan
I found this photo ages ago. Sorry, but no idea about copyright. It looks like early post war cliff top location, possibly East Coast of Yorkshire.The bus looks like a Guy CX of c. 1927, but can any sleuths out there identify the bus and location?It beats me, and I spent many years in my…
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Christ Church Bridlington Outing in the late 1940s
I was wondering if anyone knew if the two buses on the photograph belonged to Williamson’s Bus Company in Bridlington. I have this photograph showing my brother David Williamson Gt Gt Grandson of John Williamson the founder of the Bus service and it would be taken in the late 1940s when Williamson’s Bus service was…
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Bickers – Maudslay Mk III
Although there is no difficulty in identifying this as a Maudslay, I have no record of who the bodybuilder was, nor of any previous history, so would be grateful for any additional information. The internet is singularly uninformative except to provide an indication that they also owned OHK 612. Alan Murray-Rust 24/03/15 – 15:28 I…
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Milburn’s Tours
This photo courtesy of Northumberland County Council archives is of FBU 493 one of the classic Bedford OB coaches, it carries the name ‘Milburn’s Tours’ other than that I don’t have any details about it. Some of the older ones among us may think they recognise the person in the photo, it is in fact…