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Premier Travel – Guy Arab II – CDR 750 – 110
Premier Travel (Cambridge)1944Guy Arab II 5LWRoe L27/28R By 1957, Premier Travel of Cambridge was looking to replace the remainder of its rather tired ex LPTB STLs and the second hand utility CWA6s from Huddersfield, Glasgow and Mansfield. It turned to the rugged Gardner 5LW powered Guy Arab II, choosing seven ex Southdown highbridge examples with…
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Highland Omnibuses – Guy Arab – HGC 147 – E8
Highland Omnibuses Ltd1945Guy Arab IIAlexander L27/26RD (1952) In July 1965 I did a tour of Scotland on a railrover – I think one week though it may have been two – the object of which was to cover as much of the existing passenger rail network as possible, many of the lines being threatened with…
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Birkenhead Corporation – Guy Arab II – BG 8557 – 242
Birkenhead Corporation1944Guy Arab IIMassey H31/28R From the mid 1920s up to the outbreak of WW2, Birkenhead Corporation had been a confirmed Leyland aficionado, specifying Massey bodywork for a significant proportion of the fleet since 1931. With the advent of WW2 and the utility bus era, Birkenhead was allocated the Guy Arab II, hitherto unknown in…
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Harper Bros – Guy Arab I – HWA 714 – 3
Copyright Ray Soper Harper Bros1943Guy Arab IPark Royal H56R rebodied Northern Coachbuilders 1954 This shot is from the Ray Soper gallery contribution titled “Harper Brothers of Heath Hayes” click on the title if you would like to view his Gallery and comments to it.The shot is shown here for indexing purposes but please feel free…
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Samuel Ledgard – Guy Arab I – JUA 762
Photographs by “unknown” if you took these photos please go to the copyright page. Samuel LedgardGuy Arab I1943Pickering H30/26RRe-bodied 1953 Roe H31/25R Much has been widely written about World War II utility bodywork and the appearance and durability of the various makes. Possibly the least numerous were the bodies by Pickering of Wishaw, the uppermost…
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East Midland – Guy Arab – GNN 136/437 – D36/7
Copyright R H G Simpson East Midland Motor Services1945Guy ArabRoe L27/28 At first glance, this pair are identical, but not so. See the differing sizes, and positioning, of the headlamps, and also the deeper edge of the canopy on D37 (far Vehicle).These were delivered in 1945, then rebodied by Roe in 1954. I cannot be…
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Ideal Service – Graham-Dodge – WU 2725
Ideal Service (R Taylor & Son)1925 Graham-DodgeReynolds B20F This is the oldest vehicle to date to appear on the Old Bus Photos website and what a shot it is, it was contributed by Robert Gomersall who is the great grandson of R Taylor who was the original proprietor of Ideal Service. They had three other Graham-Dodge…
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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…