Old bus photos

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  • West Riding Centre Entrance

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    I’m trying to identify a bus being used by this company in the early / mid 1950s.They were double deck, used on the Wakefield to Ossett route and the distinctive feature was the double width door exactly midway along the side of the bus.There was no other passenger door. In my recollection there were no…

  • Photos from my father’s album

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                See below for details of above vehicles My late Father David & my Mother Sally both worked for Blue Line – Reliance my father for 48 years from 1931 until his retirement in 1978. Below are a selection of my Dads old photographs some of pre-war Reliance in the yard at the rear of the…

  • Colwyn Bay Buses

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    I have three bought slides (from the Arnold Richardson “Photobus” collection) depicting Colwyn Bay buses. WCA 186, WCA 729 and CUN 302L. All are Bedfords of some sort, but can anyone advise me of their model types and their fleet numbers if there were any? I haven’t been able to find a fleet list on…

  • Manchester Lowbridge Bus

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    I have a photo which includes a lowbridge Manchester Corporation bus – dated to early 1941. It’s only the rear and I wondered if anyone is expert enough to know the make of vehicle/body and number range of these. it looks to be in the 1XX range, but it’s not really clear. It’s hard to…

  • Watlington 1950s

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    I’m researching the following and struggling to find anything so hope you can help.Looking for picture(s) Mid to Late 1950s of double decker bus on route (don’t know route number). Presume it was City of Oxford (could be wrong) from High Wycombe bus station to Watlington, I believe it went via Stokenchurch. They only ran…

  • Legal Ownership Lettering

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    As a youngster fascinated by the various comings and goings of vehicles around and about, I spotted on the lower nearsides of buses and coaches legal lettering giving details of their ownership. Usually headed by the name of the operator (eg: West Yorkshire Road Car Co Ltd), together with its headquarters (eg: East Parade, Harrogate),…

  • Iveson’s Service

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    I have found your interesting page on Samuel Ledgard (Exors of) on the web while searching for information on a (market day?) bus service known as “Iveson’s Service” which I believe ran in the Otley area (to Dacre where they may have been based). I wonder if anyone has any information on this operation. I…

  • York Bros of Northampton

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    Any gen available from this forum on the Northampton privateer York Bros, which ran a fleet of beautifully liveried AECs luxury coaches, each bearing an HMS … Ship name in the rear glass panel under the window? All bought new, I ‘m certain. However, they also ran, in their ever spotless condition, two ex-L.T. Craven…

  • Hanson’s Buses 1947

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    I thought you might be interested in this postcard. I came across it when clearing a desk at West Vale Baptist Church some years ago now, the church hired the buses for their annual Sunday School Outings. The post card actually has blotting paper on the back (absorbent paper used for soaking up excess ink…

  • Associated Daimler 314 H

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    Attached is a photo which has been in my possession for at least 30 years. I know nothing of its origin.I suggest the site as Cheddar Gorge in Somerset as ‘It can’t be any where else’.It may be of passing interest to you and your contributors. CD 03/06/15 – 15:29 Given the posters in the…