Old bus photos

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  • Fleetwood Transport Festival (Tram Sunday) 17 July 2016

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    Here are some views taken at the Tram Sunday event in Fleetwood. It seems to be usual that there are many more cars, charity stalls and miscellaneous sales stands than there are trams and buses. There was an outbreak of common sense a few years ago, but the old ways seem to be slipping in…

  • City of Oxford Motor Services

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    The City of Oxford company originated in 1879 as the City of Oxford and District Tramways Company Limited, which began operating its first horse drawn tramway route on 1 December 1881. By the turn of the twentieth century, tramway systems throughout Britain were being converted to electric operation, but, even so long ago, local environmental…

  • J S Simpson Rosehearty

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    Here are the pictures I promised Peter Simpson on the ‘Simpsons EPL 628’ Best Bit. All photos are by Ron Doig and copyright Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust, the scans are all taken from postcard sized reprints made in the early 1980s, it’s likely we’ll do higher res scans when the original 120 prints and or…

  • Another Page of Omnibuses

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    Here are some pictures from an old album I recently acquired. I hope they are of interest to you. Victor Brumby10/2016 BHH 798 seen here with A A Motor Services Ltd a Daimler CVD6 with a Roe H31/25R body. It was new in 1946 to Blair & Palmer, Carlisle. MDM 626 Lloyds, Bagillt, Flintshire a…

  • Worthington Motor Tours Part Three

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    My final photos of Worthington Motor Tours. Tony Morgan10/2016 Not seen the beginning of this ‘Gallery’, click here Unknown registration Scottish Touring coach. Kyle of Lochalsh Skye Ferry. KDA 202 new in 1952 a Bedford SB with a Duple body, possibly on Lynton Hill – oops!! Publicity Director with Adrema Address Plate System with file…

  • Worthington Motor Tours Part Two

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    More photos of Worthington Motor Tours from the late forties and early fifties. Tony Morgan10/2016 Not seen the beginning of this ‘Gallery’, click here 1947. FDA 256 a Bedford OB with a Mulliner body with 29DP seats. 1947. An unknown Bedford with a Duple body on trade plates. 1948. EUK 534 a Bedford OB with…

  • Worthington Motor Tours Part One

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    I have long lamented the exclusion of Worthington Motor Tours from your offerings and attach some photos of the early days as a Company, they existed from 1920 to 1973. Tony Morgan10/2016 1935. BRE 417 a Maudslay with an Auto Cellulose 32 seat soft top body. 1935. On tour in Scotland with a Maudslay. 1937.…

  • BUT Three Axle Newcastle Trolley

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    I lived on the No.34 trolleybus route on the Wallsend section in the 1950s and 60s and throughout my early childhood became very fond of these Q1 type 1948 batch with the drop down windows. The very distinctive livery of mainly yellow and cream brightened up the dreary post war, landscape, stained by years of…

  • Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company Limited

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    The pictures below were taken in 1969/70, and, unless otherwise stated, are set against the somewhat brutalist backcloth of the Birmingham Bull Ring and its environs.The detailed information about the vehicles has been gleaned from the comprehensive Midland Red website:- http://midlandred.net/index.php Roger Cox03/2017 C2, Duple C26C, upseated to C30C in 1954, KHA 353, no. 3353…

  • King Alfred 2017

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    PPM 210G is a Bristol RESL6G, new to Brighton Hove & District. At the formation of NBC, fleets were ‘rationalised’, to use a polite term. BH&D was merged into Southdown, and PPM is seen in Southdown livery, with blinds set for a Portsmouth area service HDL 25E is another Bristol RESL6G, new to Southern Vectis.…