Category: Photos
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Maidstone & District – Daimler Fleetline – 76 YKT – DL76
Maidstone & District1964Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXNorthern Counties H44/35F Maidstone and District was an early user of the Leyland Atlantean, taking both normal and lowheight examples classified DH and DL respectively, from 1959 until 1963, when the Daimler Fleetline became the favoured choice. CRG6LX No.DL76, 76 YKT was delivered in September 1964. The Northern Counties body is…
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Potteries Motor Traction – Daimler Fleetline – 5001 VT – L 1001
Potteries Motor Traction1964Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXAlexander H41/31F Photographed in June 1970 at Manchester, and mercifully still retaining its Potteries livery and logo, is Daimler CRG6LX Fleetline No. L 1001, 5001 VT, with Alexander H41/31F bodywork, the first of a batch of twenty five delivered in April 1964. Ten similar vehicles followed in 1965. L 1001 seems…
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Swindon Corporation – Daimler Fleetline – MWV 151G – 151
Swindon Corporation1969Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXNorthern Counties H43/29F Seen in Brighton on the occasion of the HCVC rally in May 1971 is Swindon Corporation No.151, MWV 151G, with Northern Counties H43/29F bodywork, delivered in January 1969. The Swindon livery always reminded me of Rotherham’s scheme, but colour treatment of the front panel did not impress. Following the…
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Leeds City Transport – Daimler Fleetline – UNW 174H – 174
> Leeds City Transport1969Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXBRoe H45/33D Representative of the concurrent Leeds double deck orders in 1969/70 are these two buses photographed in Leeds in April 1970. On the left is Roe H45/33D bodied Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXB UNW 174H, No.174 delivered in September 1969. Standing alongside is similarly bodied Leyland Atlantean PDR2/1 UNW 404H, No.404…
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Lytham St Annes Corp’n – Daimler CWA6 – FTD 618 – 23
Copyright Roy Cox Lytham St Annes Corporation1943Daimler CWA6Duple H30/26 This shot is from the Roger Cox gallery contribution titled “The People’s League for the Defence of Freedom” 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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West Bridgford – Daimler CWA6 – GNN 410 – 25
Photo by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. West Bridgford Urban District Council1945Daimler CWA6Brush H30/26R Here is a fine example of a utility body built just at the end of the war all very square and flat with little if any panel beating due to using unskilled labour to…
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London Transport – Daimler CWA6 – GXE 578 – D 1
Lower deck facing forward Upper deck facing rearward London Transport1944Daimler CWA6Duple L27/26R Daimler CWA6’s D1 to D6 were delivered to Merton Garage in April-May 1944. They had Duple lowbridge bodies which supplemented the austerity STL bodies which had been fitted onto spare STL chassis in 1942/43. There was still a shortage for the 127 route…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Daimler CWA6 – CTP 180 – 179
Copyright D Clark Portsmouth Corporation1944Daimler CWA6Crossley H30/26R (after re-bodying in 1955) The austerity Daimler CWA6 parked behind my earlier posting of Portsmouth Corporation’s Leyland Cheetah provoked some discussion and Chris Barker asked if anyone had a photo of one after re-bodying. Here is a nice one, shiny, shorn of adverts and looking fairly clean, despite…
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London Transport – Daimler CWA6 – GXV 785 – D 54
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. London Transport1945Daimler CWA6Brush H5?R An Austin 12/4 Low Loader taxi fronts this Regent Street evocative scene. Many of these were commandeered by the London Fire Brigade to haul portable pumps during the Blitz, a task for which they were greatly under-powered!The…
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Samuel Ledgard – Daimler CWA6 – HGF 948
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Samuel Ledgard1946Daimler CWA6Brush C36C Life for an enthusiast working for Samuel Ledgard was always full of intriguing surprises and developments, some of which are enigmas to this very day and will almost certainly now remain so. The saga of HGF 948…