Old bus photos

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  • Another Holiday in Caernarvonshire 1973

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    A while ago I posted a gallery of photopraphs taken on a family holiday in Llanbedrog in 1967.I revisited the area again in 1973 and here is another selection of local independents’ vehicles that I took on that occasion.I have used the placename spellings which were current at the time of my visit and so…

  • A Tour of Shropshire and North East Wales

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    In early 1970 some enthusiast friends and I travelled over from Halifax to Manchester to join a PSV Circle tour of Shropshire and North East Wales. The vehicle hired for the trip was KMB 603G – an AEC Reliance 691 with Plaxton Panorama Elite body belonging to Godfrey Abbott of Timperley. This was quite new…

  • Reading Corporation Transport

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    Reading’s first motor buses were AEC YC types, and these were followed over the years by Guy and Karrier machines, including some of the decidedly dubious six wheelers from both makers. In 1929, the first of eleven Leyland TD1s arrived, and then from 1933, the Corporation turned to the AEC Regent, which, apart from four…

  • King Alfred Running Day 2013

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    I have decided to submit a batch of views from the King Alfred Running Day all were taken January 1st 2013. The event is normally held in Winchester on New Year’s Day, but it is moved occasionally in order to avoid clashes or to celebrate the last weekend of the “real” King Alfred operation in…

  • Crewe Station Forecourt

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    Crosville fleet number DLB740 registration VFM 605 a 1955 Bristol Lodekka LD6B with ECW H60R body Crosville fleet number DLB771 registration XFM 182 a 1955 Bristol Lodekka LD6B with ECW H60R body Here is a couple photos of Crosville Lodekka’s at the remodelled Crewe station forecourt modernised as part of the West Coast modernisation of…

  • A day out in North Wales, October 1969 – Part Two

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    Not seen Part One Click here Continuing from where I left off in Anglesey, we now retraced our steps to Bangor, but only briefly as there was plenty more to see and the sun was already on the decline. Purple Motors, Bethesda WTY 906 Bedford SB5 1962 Duple Midland B42F (ex Clarke, Consett 1966) Purple’s…

  • A day out in North Wales, October 1969 – Part One

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    This gallery was prompted by the appearance of John Stringer’s gallery A Tour of Shropshire and North East Wales which coincided with me doing some investigations to fill out details of slides I had been scanning which covered some other independents in the area. Until I was doing the latter, because of the way my…

  • Models – West Yorkshire Plus a Few Others

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    In view of the fact that there are some model buses featured in other galleries and the favourable reaction to them, I thought you might be interested in some of the model buses I have scratch built in 7mm scale. Sorry about the Northern bias! It’s a roots thing! David Rhodes02/2013 22/02/13 – 12:22 One…

  • Gibson Brothers of Barlestone (Comfort Buses) – 1922 to 1940

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    Gibson’s was the brainchild of two brothers, Walter & Edward Gibson. The two miners first came up with the idea of buying a bus in 1919. They used it to ferry themselves and work mates to and from the local coalfields, often parking it up and doing their shift before taking their colleagues home covering…

  • One door or two?

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    This article was originally published on the “Omnibuses Blogspot” site in 2008. That site disappeared a few years later (although some pages can still be seen on the “Wayback Machine“), and although the site principally covered current affairs in the bus industry, this article included an historical perspective. The sixty years mentioned in the introduction…