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Four North Wales Operators
Here are four shots of four different North Wales operators, I hope they are of interest. Don McKeown05/2017 Two AEC Reliances from the fleet of Clynnog and Trefor Motor Company are seen leaving Trefor and about to join the main road to Pwllheli. In the lead is 276 UVO,a Reliance 590 2U3RA with Willowbrook DP49F…
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Some Bradford Trolleybuses
On Sunday 26 March 1972, the last operational trolleybus system in Britain, that of Bradford City Transport, came to an end after 60 years of public service. Here are some pictures (sadly not a comprehensive record) that I took on a visit in April 1970. DKY 709, No. 709 Karrier W of 1945, originally fitted…
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Bristol SUL Coaches
One Saturday in September each year, thanks to Colin Billington , there is a running day based on Kingsbridge Devon. This provides the opportunity to ride on, amongst other vehicles, preserved Bristol SUL coaches. One regular service is to remote East Portlemouth where there is a foot ferry across the River Dart to Salcombe.My first…
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Leyland Buses in Rotterdam
The City of Rotterdam introduced the first horse tramway in 1879, operated by the RTM (Rotterdamsche Tramweg Maatschappij). Before that a few horse bus services had existed but were not very successful. The first electric tramway was inaugurated in September 1905. The operation was handed over to the new Dutch/Belgian company RETM (Rotterdamsche Electrische Tramweg…
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Yorkshire Woollen District Tigers and Arabs
Dr Gordon Brooke When new, the Willowbrook bodied PS2s (697-725) and OPD2s (728-733) of Yorkshire Woollen District were painted in the old livery of maroon with cream bands above and below the windows. (The maroon was not quite the standard shade). They were unusual in that they were fully lined out with black edging to…
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Front entrance and rear engined Routemasters
David Oldfield The front entranced Routemaster RMF1254 was unique in London and after being banned by the unions it was sold to Northern General who were the only provincial operator of Routemasters. All of Northern Generals Routemasters were built more or less to the same specification as RMF1254 except they had Leyland O.600 9.8 litre…
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Midland General AEC Regent II/Weymann
Stephen Ford Until I was about 5 we lived in Nottingham. At that time (the early 1950s) Nottingham City Transport was dominated by pre-selector AEC Regents (including quite a lot of pre-war ones). These were fine in their way – but the transmission music of a pre-selector was quite different from the Mark II crash…
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York in the 1950’s
Roy Burke I grew up in York in the 1950’s; it was quite a good town to observe different bus operators. In addition to the major local operator – West Yorkshire, who also ran the city’s local services (York-West Yorkshire) – several other companies had services into York: East Yorkshire, (Leeds to Bridlington and Hull),…
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Early Post-War Bus Bodies
David Oldfield It is fascinating how wide spread were bodies that I thought were in the minority in the early post-war boom. Roberts was one of these. They have featured on your site a number of times – but not yet a Sheffield Regent III. The Nottingham Regent IIIs are the only 8′ wide examples…