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Red & White – Gloster-Gardner – WO 7518
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Red & White Services 1932Gloster-Gardner 6LWGloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. Ltd C30R Photographed when new, here’s a rare Gloster-Gardner coach, in Red & White Services livery, the company which collaborated with the Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Works in the production…
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Valliant Direct – Gilford 168OT – GW 713
Copyright E J M Abbott, used with permission. Valliant Direct Coaches1931Gilford 168OTWeymann C30D This is a photo of a 1931 Gilford 168OT coach with Weymann semi-fabric body along Brighton seafront. It is painted in the livery of Valliant Direct Coaches of Ealing, who owned it for many years. The coach was eventually saved by well-known…
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White Bus Service – Gilford 1680T – EV 7580
Copyright Chris Youhill. White Bus Service (Wilson and Hughes Ltd. Bridlington) 1932Gilford 1680TWycombe C32F Here is one of my favourite pictures which I took as a teenager with my old roll film box camera. Obviously the standard is very poor, but it brings back lovely memories, for me, of happy times as a devotee of the…
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Western S M T – Gilford Zeus – WG 1619 – 723
Western Scottish Motor Traction Co. Limited1933Gilford ZeusStrachans H24/24R The above photograph (from the Dave Jones Collection) is of a Gilford Zeus outside the Bellfield Works in High Wycombe. This was Gilford’s third attempt to get into double decker vehicle market after the 168DOT and the failed front wheel drive double decker which was later converted…
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Ideal Service – Gilford 168 OT – YG 7518
Ideal Service (R Taylor & Sons)1934Gilford 168 OT??? 32 This superb vehicle was supplied new to R Taylor & Sons, t/a Ideal Service, Cudworth, in May 1934. PSVC lists show this to be a Gilford 168 OT, chassis number 12181. It is shown as being a thirtytwo-seater of unknown make. I suspect that the destination…
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J W Fieldsend Ltd – Ford Thames Trader – TRJ 731
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. J W Fieldsend Ltd (Salford)1961Ford Thames Trader 570E Plaxton C41F I feel fairly sure that the above shot was taken at the 5th National Coach Rally which started in Wigan and finished in Blackpool where this shot was taken. According to a…
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East Kent – Ford Thames 570E – TJG 440
East Kent Road Car Co Ltd1960Ford Thames 570EHarrington Crusader Mk1 C41F East Kent Road Car Co Ltd. bought this smart unique vehicle into the fleet at the start of the 1960’s, this was a common sight with the coach touring fleets around the country but for East Kent, this was a one off. A Ford…
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Yorkshire Woollen – Ford Thames 570E – GHD 215 – 871
Yorkshire Woollen District1961Ford Thames 570EDuple C41F By the time this picture of a Yorkshire Woollen Thames was taken, it was in preservation. Never my favourite Yorkshire coaches, I found them a little slow and a lot noisy. One of them provided the only occasion I experienced where all passengers had to get off and walk…
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Dan Air – Ford R226 – HDA 554D
Copyright Pete Davies Dan Air (London)1966Ford R226Plaxton C52F Here is a view of Ford R226 HDA 554D, taken at Lasham airfield on 30th August 1975. She appears to have started life with Don Everall of Wolverhampton, and has a Plaxton coach body. In this view, she has become a staff bus for the airline Dan…