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Newcastle Corporation Follow-Up
A follow-up to the recent thread posted by Ronnie Hoye of a line up of Newcastle Corporation buses lined up for a race meeting at Gosforth Park Racecourse. Ian T put in a query about Newcastle’s CVG6s with Birmingham style bodies and what appears below is an answer to that. In 1948 Newcastle Corporation received…
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Vaggs Motors of Knockin Heath
The County of Shropshire was traditionally served by Midland Red in the south and Crosville in the north. The area in between was home to a number of interesting independent operators. One of the largest was Vaggs Motors of Knockin Heath. The first photo shows a typical line up at the depot. Seen in 1972…
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Doncaster Independents – Two
A week or so ago a large selection of scans were emailed to me from David Oglesby headed as ‘Several old Doncaster area bus photos’. As there is already a Doncaster Independents gallery by Roger Cox and seeing most of the shots were of independents I decided to follow the film industry and headed this…
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Bristol SUL
I am new to this site and thought you may be interested in seeing a few shots of the Bristol SUL4A. The much missed Tillingbourne Bus Company. 417 HDV was very smart when first repainted into the Danube blue and light grey livery with a yellow stripe. These two shots were taken in 1972 in…
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Provincial Society Bus Rally August 2015
Here are few shots that maybe of interest, I took them at the Provincial Society Bus Rally, Stokes Bay, Gosport, on Sunday 2nd August. Pete Davies08/2015 RV 6358 is one of the large fleet of Leyland Titans operated by Portsmouth City Transport over the years. This one is a TD4 from 1935. She has an…
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Thames Valley ex Newbury and District Guy Arabs
In 1950 the Red & White group sold out to the British Transport Commission, and many of its smaller subsidiary companies were transferred to the management of the nearby Tilling operators. One such component company was Newbury & District which fell into the dubious care of Thames Valley, probably the scruffiest and least proud constituent…
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Leeds City Transport
Last week I found an album of old photos on a mart stall at Todmorden. Very interesting find.Here are a few shots of some Leeds City Transport vehicles, there is no markings claiming copyright. Roy Dodsworth11/2015 Registration MNW 720 fleet number 720 was a 1949 Crossley DD42/7 with Crossley H30/26R bodywork. Registration XUM 860 fleet…
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Blackpool Corporation
From the same album has the Leeds shots here is a set of shots for Blackpool Corporation. Roy Dodsworth11/2015 Registration DFV 144 fleet number 244 was a 1949 Leyland Titan PD2/5 with Burlingham FH31/23C bodywork. Registration EFV 296 fleet number 296 was a 1951 Leyland Titan PD2/5 with Burlingham FH29/23C bodywork. Registration EFV 265 fleet…
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Notts and Derby Traction
Many years ago I took an old driver down to Bournemouth to view an old Notts and Derby trolleybus being restored, it was on the Hurn industrial estate, I took some photos they had restored the body and paintwork but the interior remained to be done. They said that they intended to run it at…
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West Yorkshire Road Car Company
Four West Yorkshire photos from the bought album for your perusal. Roy Dodsworth12/2015 Registration JYG 726 fleet number 432 to become SBW14 was a 1951 Bristol LWL6B with ECW B39R bodywork. Registration LWR 425 fleet number 859 to become DGW5 was a 1953 Bristol KSW6G with ECW L27/28RD bodywork. Registration SLA 759 fleet number CUG44…