Category: Photos
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Southern National – Bristol LS – OTT 98 – 1299
Southern National Omnibus Company1953Bristol LS6GECW C41F Seen heading along York Place, Harrogate at the end of a Trans-Pennine run is Southern National 1299 (OTT 98), a 1953 Bristol LS6G with ECW C41F coachwork. Resplendent in iconic Royal Blue livery, this coach was part of the last batch to be built with the traditional Royal Blue…
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United Automobile – Bristol LS6B – XHN 402 – BUE2
United Automobile Services1955Bristol LS6BECW DP39F Waiting in Glasgow, exact location unknown, BUE2 is being prepared for departure on the service 14 (later 515) to Whitley Bay. The service ran once a day in winter, and twice a day in summer months. It was a long drawn out affair with a total running time of about…
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Bristol Tramways – Bristol LS – NHU 2 – 2800
Bristol Tramways & Carriage Company Limited1950Bristol LSX5GECW B42D This Bristol LSX5G with chassis number LSX.001 was new to Bristol Tramways in 1950 and has an Eastern Coachworks B42D body numbered 4978. It was, as its chassis number suggests, a prototype. Seen here at the Bristol Waterfront Running Day 22/05/2011. Photograph and Copy contributed by Les…
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Bristol Omnibus – Bristol LS – UHT 494 – 2884
Bristol Omnibus1955Bristol LSAECW B45F Here we have one of the two Bristol LS that operated with other than a Gardner engine. Bristol Omnibus Bristol LSA registration UHT 494 fleet number 2884 seen on October 6, 1962 lasted in service until 1968 with an AEC horizontal engine. Much of its in-service time was marked by the…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol LS5G – MWY 226 – EUG 15
West Yorkshire Road Car Co1954Bristol LS5GECW DP41F Quite what this Harrogate based West Yorkshire LS5G was doing in Waterhouse Street, Halifax, in the summer of 1965 I am unsure, but it seems to be a curious choice of vehicle if it was on private hire duty. No doubt our Halifax experts will come up with…
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United Automobile – Bristol MW6G – 517 LHN – UE517
United Automobile Services1959Bristol MW6GECW DP39F These dual purpose vehicles were purchased for the North East to London route it had coach seats and maybe a bit more leg room but apart from that it was still just a bus. I think when I took this photo in 1966 they had been moved on to shorter…
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United Automobile – Bristol MW5G – 929 JHN – U529
United Automobile Services1959Bristol MW5GECW B45F This is the bus version of a 1959 Bristol MW as opposed to the dual purpose one 6 buses ago, there is quick link to it here. This bus version has a 5 cylinder Gardner engine where the DP version had a 6 cylinder engine probable because of the long…
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United Automobile – Bristol MW6G – FHN 19C – U719
United Automobile Services1965Bristol MW6GECW B45F This is the Bristol MW version with what I think has a very good looking front I think they got the idea from the SUL and improved on it. In all the time I have been on the web researching other buses I have never seen a photo of a…
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Lincolnshire – Bristol MW5G – SFU 848 – 3021
Lincolnshire Road Car Company1958Bristol MW5GECW DP41F Another photo taken in Scarborough coach park of a Bristol “MW” series single decker but this time in the fleet of the Lincolnshire Road Car Company Ltd. This vehicle was classed as “dual purpose” meaning it was a bus with “nearly but not quite” a coach standard of interior.…
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Crosville – Bristol MW6G – 916 VFM – EMG 417
Photo by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Crosville Motor Services1961Bristol MW6GECW DP41F Crosville at its head office at Chester and had its boundaries at St Helens (N) Newcastle under Lyme (E) Cardigan (S) and Aberdaron (W) including the Island of Anglesey that is a very big area to…