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Phillips of Shiptonthorpe – Commer Avengers
I recently acquired a batch of photographs purporting to be vehicles from the fleet of Phillips of Shiptonthorpe in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Amongst them were to photos of Duple-bodied Commer Avengers GJV 34 and SOV 372. Phillips ran many Avengers, but neither of these vehicles appear in any published fleet lists.Both photographs are…
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Taken Today 01/01/2013
Among the vehicles taking part at todays King Alfred Running Day was this RATP Renault from the 1930’s. Note the UK registration. If you’ve ever seen the book on King Alfred Motor Services, this is one of three similar buses owned by Robert Jowitt, one of the authors of that book. He comments that, when…
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Two Bradford Questions
I have found reading through your website very interesting even though I am in no way technically minded. Between 1943 and 1961 I lived in both Bradford and Stanningley, so over the years I travelled on many trams, trolleys and buses including Bradford Corporation, West Riding and occasionally Ledgard. The thing I most remember about…
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LUT Loline Replacement Gearbox
Gentlemen, can anybody throw light on this one.I drove (1970-1972) for LUT at Swinton, we had 6 Lolines, 6, 7, 36, 37, 38 & 39 principally to get beneath Patricroft station bridge on routes 14 & 22. Some time before 1970, no 6 was involved in an accident in fog with a private train on…
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London Transport GS Class
This year marks the 60th anniversary of London Transport’s GS class. Perhaps the most surprising thing about the GS was that such a competent and handsome bus should emerge from a specification that on paper looks decidedly iffy. Not to put to fine a point on it, it looks like a real bitsa: bitsa this,…
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The One and Only FRM 1
A week or so ago I received quite a few photographs that were the collection of Eddie Collings, they were donated to the Old Bus Photos website by Margaret, Eddies daughter. I was very pleased to find the above shots and Eddie must have known the importance of this vehicle because he took two cameras…
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Cullings Coach Services Double Deckers
My interest in buses from the 1950/60’s has been re-kindled after many years. I have spent many quiet moments reading about the informed comments and facts from your contributors on the Old Bus Photos website. I took several photos when I was thirteen to 15 years old on an old 126 camera in Norwich. The…
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Manchester’s Upright Profile MCW Orion Bodies
Something has puzzled me for decades and perhaps someone on here can provide a definitive answer.As is well known, MCTD’s Albert Neal had no time for the original Orion body and the first batch of the so called upgraded bodies delivered in 1955/6 did not exactly impress. For almost 2 years the department worked with…
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Colchester Bus Station
In the thread “Massey Bodies with Independents” there is a photograph of an ex-Moores Arab leaving Colchester Bus Station, which seems to be as I remember it from a visit in 1984 – with a multi-storey car-park above. I visited Colchester last month: the bus deposited me at what now passes for Colchester’s bus station…
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X24 Llandudno
I have recently purchased a black and white photo of VDB 962, North Western Leyland coach leaving Moseley Street, Manchester for Llandudno, service X24 on a wet day. I wondered if anybody has any details on this route please. Was this a regular route and which route did it take, I’m not sure when the…