Category: Photos
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Hants & Dorset – Bristol KSW – KEL 728 – 1285
Hants & Dorset Motor Services1951Bristol KSW6BECW L27/28R KEL 728 is a Bristol KSW6B new to Hants & Dorset in 1951. The ECW body was of the L55R variety when new. After withdrawal from passenger duty in 1969, it became one of the driver training fleet, with various alterations including the fitting of a sliding door…
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Western National – Bristol KS5G – LTA 813 – W994
Copyright Ken Jones Western National Omnibus Co Ltd1950Bristol KS5GECW L27/28R In 2009 preserved Western National LTA 813 visited the Plymouth Rally travelling under it’s own power there and back from it’s base in Coventry. One of the people travelling back with it was Ken Jones originally from Taunton in Somerset. He managed a photographic stop…
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Southern Vectis – Bristol KS5G – HDL 264 – 750
Southern Vectis Omnibus Company1951Bristol KS5GECW L27/28R New to Southern Vectis in 1951 with an Isle of Wight registration a Bristol KS5G with an ECW lowbridge body and was withdrawn by them in 1967. Sold on to dealer W Norths (PV) Limited, Sherburn-in-Elmet in May 1967 it then went to Jameson of Sunderland the following month.…
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United Automobile – Bristol KSW6B – VHN 851 – H51
United Automobile Services1954Bristol KSW6BECW H32/28R In this shot you can certainly see the difference in height between this highbridge KS and the height of the Lodekka both of which had the centre isle seating plan. The KS series succeeded the K series in 1950 when body length was increased from 26ft to 27ft, the extra…
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Samuel Ledgard – Bristol K6A – GHN 840
Photograph from The late Robert F Mack collection. Samuel Ledgard1945Bristol K6AECW L27/26R As featured in “An Arresting Experience” by Chris Youhill on the “articles” page here we have the vehicle in question. This vehicle was ex-United Automobile Services fleet number BAL 8 new to them in 1945 acquired by Samuel Ledgard in 1959 and served…
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Rotherham Corporation – Bristol K6B – EET 580 – 180
Copyright Ian Wild Rotherham Corporation1949Bristol K6BEast Lancs H30/26R Rotherham was an enthusiastic Bristol operator until they became no longer available to non Tilling Companies. 180 is one of a batch of four Bristol L6B originally with Bruce B32C bodies delivered in 1949 and all rebodied in 1951 (only two years later) by East Lancs as…
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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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Eastern Counties – Bristol K5G – LKH 255 – KNG 255
Eastern Counties Omnibus Company1950Bristol K5GECW H56R This is a picture taken in my teen-age years of one of my favourite K5G’s which used to regularly run the route 92A to my home council estate in Norwich. Taken in Surrey Street garage on 23rd August 1969 it rests for the night.The bus was withdrawn at the…