Category: Articles
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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…
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Samuel Ledgards ex London Transport “Sutton Depot” Daimler CWA6s
Chris Youhill Here are some happy reminiscences from personal experience on a class of Daimler vehicles which hold a very special place in Samuel Ledgard history. During 1953/4 no less than twenty four London Transport Daimler CWA6s were purchased. Two of these, GYL 291 and HGF 805, are not part of this account and so…
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Monday at The Moorfield, Kid ??
Chris Youhill Every Thursday at Bondgate Mr. Jack Tapscott would publish the following week’s work for the two garages at Otley and Ilkley including, as far as was possible in advance, any rest day working and overtime. Jack’s typing may admittedly have left a lot to be desired, but the accuracy of the weekly A4…
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New Years Day out in Winchester
David Oldfield What does Ebenezer do for New Year? He goes to bed early so that he can get to Winchester for 08:30 on New Year’s Day. Family commitments kept me in Sheffield until New Year’s day until the death of my mother about three years ago. A ‘Friends of King Alfred bus’ virgin until…
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To Birmingham – and beyond
Mel Harwood I blame my dad. He just happened to be an inspector with Potteries Motor Traction in Stoke-on-Trent when I was growing up, and as a result of my going with him to work when he was on late turn (to collect his pay) I saw just about every new bus PMT had delivered…
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Sheffield Bus Bodies
David Oldfield A lot has been said about Sheffield not having a standard bus – unlike London, Manchester and Birmingham. This may have been true but, apart from those quirky deliveries to spice up the life of a gricer, Sheffield did adhere to a fairly strict dual order policy. From the ’20s until mid ’60s…