Category: Photos
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West Yorkshire – Bedford OB – FWX 547 – SP1
Photograph by “unknown” – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. West Yorkshire Road Car Company1948Bedford OBBeadle B30F West Yorkshire needed a few small buses for certain routes to replace there pre-war Leyland and Dennis small buses. Bristol who were the main supplier of buses to West Yorkshire as they were…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol L5G – GWX 135 – 250
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. West Yorkshire Road Car Company1949Bristol L5GECW DP31R This Sunday a very different coach than you have been used to, West Yorkshire coaches were painted in cream & red rather than red & cream as the photo shows. This photo was taken…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol LL5G – JWU 888 – SGW 1
Photo by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. West Yorkshire Road Car Company 1951Bristol LL5GECW B39R The LL was just a longer version of the L with a body width of 7′ 6″ the LW that had a body width of 8′ 0″ and the LWL was the longer 8ft…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol LWL6B – KWU 394 – SBW34
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. West Yorkshire Road Car Company1952Bristol LWL6BECW B39R Here we have a pair of Bristol Ls the one on the left is a 30ft long by 8ft wide version with a Bristol 8.1 litre 6 cylinder engine. The one on the right…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol L5G – CWT 869 – 128
Copyright S N J White West Yorkshire Road Car Company1938Bristol L5GECW B32F This bus is one of the final Bristol L5G pre-war single deckers in the series 110 to 205 which could be seen all over the operating territory of the West Yorkshire Road Car Company. It has a “bible indicator” with a minimum size…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol K5G – OWT 201 – YDG 88
Copyright Bob Gell West Yorkshire Road Car Company1954Bristol K5G ECW H28/28R A fine vehicle indeed, but quite sad in some ways. This typical ex-Tilling Group Bristol K5G is spending its final days on loan to Yorkshire Woollen District, after its parent company (York-West Yorkshire) had lost its Tilling identity to the National Bus Company. Eleven Bristol…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol K6B – HWW 863 – 774
Copyright Roy Marshall West Yorkshire Road Car Company1950Bristol K6BECW L27/28R West Yorkshire 774 (DB 36) Bristol K6B is seen new at Chester Street Bus Station, Bradford on the Ilkley stand in 1950 on the 63 service via Manningham Lane to Shipley, an intermediate place before Ilkley. The service at this time ran every 30 minutes…
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York – West Yorkshire – Bristol K5G – OWT 201 – YDG 88
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. York – West Yorkshire Road Car Company1939Bristol K5GECW H30/26 re-bodied H28/28R in 1955 This bus is not what it seems as it started life as a 1939 Bristol K5G with ECW H30/26 body, numbered Y 702 (YDG 72) and registered DWU…
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Keighley – West Yorkshire – Bristol K5G – CWX 671 – KDG 26
Keighley – West Yorkshire1938Bristol K5GRoe L27/28R Keighley – West Yorkshire was established as a branch of West Yorkshire Road Car in 1930, if we believe the entry on Wikipedia. CWX 671 was new to KWY in 1938 and is a Bristol K5G, but the bodywork is not what one might expect, being by Roe rather…
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Keighley – West Yorkshire – Bristol K – CWX 671 – KDG26
Keighley – West Yorkshire1950Bristol K5GRoe L27/28R This Roe L27/28R Bristol K5G was delivered to Keighley – West Yorkshire (as K383) in April 1950. Over sixty-one years later KDG26 is seen passing through the impressive arch of the Halifax Piece Hall when taking a very active part in the Heart of the Pennines Event in October…