Category: Photos
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Portsmouth Corporation – Tilling-Stevens E60A6 – RV1147 – 84
Copyright G E Baddeley Portsmouth Corporation 1932 TSM (Tilling-Stevens) E60A6 English Electric H26/24R CPPTD lent seven TSM’s and three Leyland TD1’s to supplement the shortage of LPTB’s vehicles. Parked at the Red Deer pub, Croydon, alongside two Ford Y’s and an Austin 14, Portsmouth Corporation’s TSM (Tilling-Stevens) E60A6 is very much on foreign territory, in…
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Worthing Motor Services – Tilling Stevens – IB 552
Worthing Motor Services 1914 Tilling Stevens TS3 Newman O40RO Here is a 1914 Tilling Stevens TS3 with a 1909 Newman O40RO body. She was once registered as CD4952 and is resident at Amberley, where we see her on 21 September 2014. Whilst she is normally regarded as a Southdown vehicle, she’s actually lettered for Worthing…
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Western National – Tilling Stevens – JY 124 – 3379
Western National Omnibus Co Ltd 1932 Tilling-Stevens Beadle B35R JY 124 is a Bristol L, dating from . . . NO! Despite the Bristol radiator, this is actually a Tilling-Stevens, new to Western National (fleet number 3379) in 1932, and given a new Beadle body in 1947. After some years in use with a fairground…
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Southampton Corporation – Thornycroft Daring – OW 3434 – 9
Southampton Corporation 1933 Thornycroft Daring DDFC Park Royal H28/26R Here is a rare beast, an ex Southampton Corporation Thornycroft Daring. It was one of 9 such vehicles they bought, in penny numbers, between 1933 and 1937. They were all withdrawn in 1946 and sold. No.9 went to Safeway of London and, in the critical vehicle…
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D J Jones (Crymych) – Thornycroft – DE 6181
D. J. Jones (Crymych) 1927 Thornycroft ?? ????? This Thornycroft was first registered to D. J. Jones in September 1927. The body maker is not known but is possibly Thomas & Thomas of Carmarthen who built many for this area’s operators. It is seen here carrying children to school in Crymmych (accepted spelling at the…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Thornycroft J – BK 2986 – 10
Portsmouth Corporation 1919 Thornycroft J Dodson O16/18RO BK 2986 is a Thornycroft J, built in 1919 for Portsmouth Corporation. It originally had a Wadham O16/18RO seater body but was rebodied in 1926 with an ex London General AEC B 1920 Dodson O16/18RO body. Having been built in Basingstoke, it is fitting that she is seen…
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Westminster Omnibus – Sunbeam Sikh – JJ 9215
Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Westminster Omnibus Co 1933 Sunbeam Sikh Christopher Dodson (H36/28R) In 1928, Sunbeam designed two prototype passenger chassis, a three-axle sixty-seven seat double-decker bus and a two-axle single-decker bus or coach. Two model names, ‘Sikh’ and ‘Pathan’, were adopted for them. They…
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Bournemouth Corporation – Sunbeam MS2 – BRU 8 – 200
Copyright Ray Soper Bournemouth Corporation 1935 Sunbeam MS2 Park Royal O69R This shot is from the Ray Soper ‘Gallery’ contribution A Trolleybus tour in Bournemouth click on the title if you would like to view his Gallery and comments to it. The shot is shown here for indexing purposes but please feel free to make…
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Bournemouth Corporation – Sunbeam MS2 – ALJ 986 – 202
Copyright Ray Soper Bournemouth Corporation 1935 Sunbeam MS2 Park Royal O69R This shot is from the Ray Soper ‘Gallery’ contribution A Trolleybus tour in Bournemouth click on the title if you would like to view his Gallery and comments to it. The shot is shown here for indexing purposes but please feel free to make…
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Bournemouth Corporation – Sunbeam MF2B – WRU 261 – 261
Copyright Ray Soper Bournemouth Corporation 1958 Sunbeam MF2B Weymann H63D This shot is from the Ray Soper ‘Gallery’ contribution A Trolleybus tour in Bournemouth click on the title if you would like to view his Gallery and comments to it. The shot is shown here for indexing purposes but please feel free to make any…