Category: Photos
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Lees Motorways – Austin K8 – LVO 530
Lees Motorways (Worksop)1951 Austin K8Kenex C12F We start with a conflict. The PSVC entry for 2012 says LVO 530 was new to Lees, Worksop, while Jenkinson’s book of 1978 say it was new to Symes, Devonshire Hill. While the sources agree that t is an Austin K8 with Kenex body, PSVC says it is of the…
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Karefree Travel – Austin CXB – NPF 140
Karefree Travel1948Austin CXBMann Egerton C31F There appears to be some confusion about the exact model definition of the immediate post war Austin passenger model range. The Austin “near clone” of the Bedford O haulage vehicle was the K type, and the equivalent passenger model (and OB lookalike) was the CX. Some sources suggest that the…
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S H M D – Atkinson PD746 – UMA 370 – 70
Copyright David Beilby Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield1955Atkinson Mk II (6LW)Northern Counties H35/25CD Following on from Roger Broughton’s comments on the S.H.M.D. Daimler CVD6 posting I thought it might be appropriate to post this view of the preserved S.H.M.D. Atkinson double-decker in Stalybridge bus station on 30th April 1978. The location still contains many props…
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Lancashire United Transport – Atkinson Alpha – TTD 297 – 528
Lancashire United Transport1954Atkinson Alpha PL745HRoe B44F When the BET subsidiary and previously staunch Bristol user North Western Road Car Co. found itself unable to continue buying its favourite make of chassis (due to the manufacturer falling under state-owned BTC ownership and only able to supply to other similarly owned companies), NWRCC management, not to be…
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King Alfred – Albion Victor – AAA 756 – Victor 6
King Alfred Motor Services1935Albion Victor PK114Abbott C20C AAA 756 is an Albion Victor PK114 and it dates from 1935, when it was delivered to the King Alfred fleet. It has an Abbott C20C body and is seen outside Winchester Guildhall on 25 April 1993, the running day having been moved to April to mark the…
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Carmel Coaches – Albion Victor – LOD 495
Carmel Coaches1950Albion VictorDuple C??F As there appears to be no picture of this lovely coach on OBP , I am attaching one. It has been in preservation for many years with Carmel Coaches of Northlew in Devon and can still be seen at local events in the West Country. It was for a while used…
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Cheltenham District – Albion Venturer CX19 – HDG 448 – 72
Cheltenham District1949Albion Venturer CX19Metro Cammell H56R Cheltenham District was never quite the public transport company it seemed. Always privately owned until the late ’40’s, it always appeared to be a municipal operation, compounded by the town crest its vehicles always bore on the sides.In tramway days, a sprinkling of Guy BB’s supplemented its tram services,…
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Hanson – Albion Valkyrie CX13 – DCX 886 – 236
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Hanson1947Albion Valkyrie CX13H.V. Burlingham B35F Seen at the end of its days this Albion Valkyrie of the Huddersfield independent “Hanson” what a sad sight. The CX13 bus chassis was first built in 1937 production lasted three years to 1940 and then…
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South Yorkshire – Albion Valkyrie – GWT 630 – 61
South Yorkshire Motors1947Albion Valkyrie CX13Burlingham C33F GWT 630 is a former South Yorkshire Albion Valkyrie CX13 of 1947 vintage, though some sources say that it entered service in 1948. It is pictured on the HCVC Brighton Rally in 1971, but after a change of ownership, it subsequently underwent a complete restoration in 2009. The Burlingham…
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South Yorkshire – Albion Valkyrie – EWX 569 – 60
Photo taken by R. F. Mack South Yorkshire Motors1946Albion Valkyrie CX13Pickering B34F No 60 one of three vehicles bodied by Pickering of Wishart, parked outside the South Yorkshire Garage in Cornmarket Pontefract.These were used often as duplicates on the long Doncaster-Leeds service sometimes not all the way from Doncaster. If the normal double decker was…