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Northern General Transport Percy Main Depot – Part Two
Ronnie Hoye Not read Part One click here The layout of the lights on this Weymann bodied AEC Regent suggests that it could be from 1940, but the registration indicates post war. Percy Main had six, FT 5222/7 – 112/7, and they set the trend for many of the post war vehicles. This 1946, Guy…
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Northern General Transport Percy Main Depot – Part One
Ronnie Hoye The story of The Northern General Transport Company Ltd starts in 1913, but the history of some of its subsidiaries goes back even further. Two of them were Tynemouth and District Transport Co and Wakefields Motors Limited; this is a brief and by no means complete history of those two. It would take…
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The Tyneside Tramways and Tramroads Company Limited
Ronnie Hoye I am extremely grateful to Tony Fox, and Bill Donald, for their help in putting this article together. The Tyneside name ceased to exist as an identity in 1975, inevitably, some records have been lost entirely, and in instances where I am aware of more than one account of events, I have pointed…
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Rochdale Regent Vs
Donald McKeown Lancashire in the fifties and sixties. All that variety! Well, that is perhaps what most enthusiasts will think, but as one who was there at the time, I can tell you that it was merely a variety of Leyland Titans. Of the 27 pre-1968 municipal bus fleets in Lancashire, all but one operated…
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North West Independents – Book Review
Pete Davies One of the recent titles from Venture Publications is Neville Mercer’s review of Independent Bus Operators in North West England, number 31 in the Super Prestige series. Although I have been based in Hampshire for over 40 years, my roots are in the North West, Bolton and Lancaster to be precise, so I…
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Guernsey Motors/Railways Fleet Number 77
Peter Davies A 1958 Albion Victor FT39KAN with a Reading FB35F body Registration 8226 – YFO 127 Guernsey fleet number 77, an Albion Victor followed a string of Albion’s supplied to Guernsey Motors and Guernsey Railway. Designed externally to look like coaches they are in fact buses, Licensed to carry 35 seated passengers and 7…
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Buses and coaches in Sale – Part 4
Neville Mercer Not read from the beginning click here Part Four – Local Coach Operators When I lived out in the middle of Cheshire and made monthly shopping trips to Manchester with my parents, the number 36 passed the garages of three coach operators as it travelled along the A56 through Altrincham and Sale. The…
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Buses and coaches in Sale – Part 3
Neville Mercer Not read from the beginning click here Part 3 – Express Services The A56 trunk road entered the Borough of Sale from the north at Crossford Bridge, where the River Mersey marked the boundary with Stretford (and Cheshire’s boundary with Lancashire), and was known as Chester Road until the junction with Dane Road.…
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Buses and coaches in Sale – Part 2
Neville Mercer Not read from the beginning click here Part Two – North Western In 1923 British Automobile Traction, the motor bus subsidiary of BET, restructured its “branch” in Cheshire and northern Derbyshire as a subsidiary known as the North Western Road Car Company. At that time the new company had major bases in Macclesfield…
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Buses and coaches in Sale – Part 1
Neville Mercer Not read from the beginning click here Part One – Manchester Corporation Sale is divided into two equal halves by the A56 trunk road which runs along a north north east to south south west axis through the centre of the town. Three main east-west routes cross the A56. The southernmost of these…