Category: Photos
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Lewis Meridian – Sentinel SLC/6/30 – PXE 761
Copyright Pete Davies Lewis Meridian 1955 Sentinel SLC/6/30 DupleC41C PXE7 61 is a Sentinel SLC/6/30, built in 1955. She has a Duple body (C41C when new to Lewis Meridian of Greenwich) but the bodywork has been altered in this view. We see her parked at East Boldre, near Beaulieu, on 13 April 1986, having been…
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White Heather – LGOC CC Class – GF 7254 – 12 (ex LT 1000)
Copyright D A Jones White Heather 1930 LGOC CC Class with Meadows Engine Duple C??C When Chris Youhill posted his Daimler/Brush Hybrid HGF 948, it made me search out another such vehicle. Although LGOC’s associate, AEC, had designed the AEC Renown chassis and they had gone into service in 1929 as the LT class, LGOC…
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Wallace Arnold Tours – Leyland Tiger – LUB 260
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Wallace Arnold Tours Leeds1948Leyland Tiger PS1Duple C33F This photo is another from my dusty collection of postcards bought many years ago, and recently extracted from the proverbial shoebox. This view of Wallace Arnold coach LUB 260 was taken by an unknown…
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Wakefields Motors – Leyland Tiger TS8 – FT 45?4 – 104
Photograph by “unknown” – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Wakefields Motors1937Leyland Tiger TS8Duple C30F Regarded by many as one of the most handsome pre war coach bodies, if my information is correct, Wakefields Motors had four of these C30F Duple Coronations. FT 45?4/7 – 104/7, from 1937, were on…
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Ribble – Leyland Tiger – FV 5737 – 753
Ribble Motor Services1936Leyland Tiger TS7Duple C31F FV 5737, Leyland Tiger TS7, was new to W C Standerwick of Blackpool in 1936. In the post-war years, she was transferred across to the Ribble fleet and given this Duple C31F body in 1950. In the renumbering system, she became 753. She’s seen at the Winkleigh Open Day…
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Southdown – Leyland Tiger Cub – MUF 637 – 637
Southdown Motor Services Ltd1954Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/1Duple/Nudd B39F The recent posting of the Edinburgh Guy Arab re-bodied by Nudd Brothers & Lockyer reminded me of this batch of saloons delivered to Southdown in 1954. This batch of Leyland Tiger Cubs were numbered 620-639 registered MUF 620-639 with B39F seating layout which oddly had a single…
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Edward Thomas and Son – Leyland Tiger Cub – 6217 PU
Edward Thomas and Son1961Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/2Duple C41F This is a Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/2 with a Duple Donington C41F body that was bought initially for staff transport by the Shell Oil company in 1961. It went to Edward Thomas of West Ewell, near Epsom, Surrey in November 1968, who in turn disposed of it…
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Alpine Travel – Leyland Tiger Cub – WND 477
Alpine Travel1958Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/2Duple Britannia C41F Photographed in Llandudno some ten years ago is this Hughes Bros Alpine Tours Tiger Cub WND 477, which started life in August 1958 with Spencer Tours of Manchester. This firm merged with Smiths of Wigan which later became part of Shearings. On my several visits to Llandudno over…
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Belle Vue Coaches – Leyland Royal Tiger – LOE 300
Copyright Pete Davies Belle Vue Coaches1951Leyland Royal Tiger PSU1/15Duple Roadmaster ???? As most people visiting this site will know, Dinky made far more examples of the model Duple Roadmaster than Duple ever managed to make of the real thing. Most of the real ones went to Standerwick and, so far as I am aware, there…
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Pennine Motor Services – Leyland Leopard – 5895 YG
Copyright Pete Davies Pennine Motor Services1962Leyland LeopardDuple DP41F Here is a photo of 5895 YG, Leyland Leopard with Duple body, in the fleet of Pennine Motor Services, then in Gargrave. I took the photo in Morecambe in June 1970. Note the SALOPIA vehicle alongside.This vehicle was the last of four of this style, the other…