Category: Photos
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Smiths Luxury Coaches – Dennis Lancet – JXK 540
Copyright Roger Cox Smiths Luxury Coaches (Reading) Ltd1948Dennis Lancet J3Smiths FC35F (1958) This shot is from the Roger Cox gallery contribution titled “Smith’s Luxury Coaches Dennis Lancets” click on the title if you would like to view his Gallery and comments.The shot is shown here for indexing purposes but please feel free to make any…
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Chiltern Queens – Dennis Lancet – KGU 599
Copyright Ray Soper Chiltern Queens of Woodcote1949Dennis LancetBurlingham ???? This shot is from the Ray Soper gallery contribution titled “Chiltern Queens of Woodcote” click on the title if you would like to view his Gallery and comments.The shot is shown here for indexing purposes but please feel free to make any comment regarding this vehicle…
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Smiths Luxury Coaches – Dennis Lancet J3 – KXX 329
Photograph by Graham Low Smiths Luxury Coaches (Reading) LtdDennis Lancet J31947-50Duple C35F I read with great interest Frank and Derrick’s notes on the Dennises run by Prestwells of Woodhouse Eaves. Unfortunately I’ve no info that might help, but here’s a Dennis Lancet J3 of about 1950 run by Smith’s of Reading until about 1964. The…
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East Kent – Dennis Lancet UF – HJG 18
Copyright Roger Cox East Kent Road Car Co Ltd1954Dennis Lancet UFDuple C41C This picture of East Kent HJG 18, a Dennis Lancet UF with Duple C41C body, was taken in Rye in 1967. East Kent, like fellow BET operator Aldershot & District, was a great fan of the pre war and post war vertical engined…
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Safeway Coaches – Dennis Lancet – ASV 900
Copyright all shots Ken Jones Safeway Coaches1949Dennis Lancet IIIReading C33F It’s not often that you find a vehicle built in 1949 which until recently has had only one owner. This Dennis Lancet 33 seat coach was acquired new by Safeway Services of South Petherton in Somerset, which was owned and operated by the Gunn family.…
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Feather Brothers – Dennis Lancet – DAK 684
Feather Brothers (Bradford)1939Dennis Lancet 2Plaxton C37F I took this photograph in 1960 with a rather primitive optical instrument called the Bencini Comet S. It shows a Dennis Lancet 2 of 1939 with a Plaxton C37F body, seeing out its final days employed on contractor work based in a yard beside the main London- Brighton railway…
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East Kent – Dennis Lancet UF – HJG 3
East Kent Road Car Co Ltd1954Dennis Lancet UFDuple C41C This photo taken on Margate seafront in about 1966 shows HJG 3 numerically the first of a batch of 30 Dennis Lancet UF’s fitted with Duple Ambassador C41C bodies delivered to East Kent in 1954 these made up the largest fleet of Lancet UF’s in the…
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S Bingley – Dennis Lancet – CRE 938
Copyright Unknown S Bingley (Hemsworth)1935Dennis Lancet IWillowbrook C37F Dennis Lancet I, chassis number 171027, was bodied by Willowbrook (2830) and seated thirty-seven passengers. It was new in 1935 and was operated by Associated Bus Companies Ltd (formed in 1928 of several local independents) prior to the acquisition of that company by Potteries Motor Traction in…
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Aldershot & District – Dennis Lancet – LAA 228 – 193
Aldershot & District Traction Co1953Dennis Lancet III J10CStrachan FC38R In 1948, Aldershot & District took delivery of fifteen Dennis Lancet J3 coaches with Strachans C32R bodies. These replaced the externally very similar Lancet II/Strachans C32R vehicles of 1937-38, the main difference being the longer bonnet of the Lancet III which housed the 7.58 litre O6…
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Aldershot & District – Dennis Lancet III – HOU 905/909 – 179/183
Aldershot & District Traction Co.1950Dennis Lancet III J10Strachans B38R A rather sad set of pictures taken in 1967. Parked at the rear of the Aldershot & District premises in Halimote Road, Aldershot is a line up of Dennis Lancet III buses with Strachans B38R bodywork, headed by HOU 905/909, Nos 179/183, all awaiting disposal after…