Old bus photos

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  • The Ledgard Debate

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    From comments received for the Samuel Ledgard – AEC Regent III RT – MXX 148 posting.Samuel Ledgard was an independent bus operator in the Leeds Bradford area of West Yorkshire, if you want a more in depth history it can be found on Peter Goulds excellent website here. I’ve never been able to understand why…

  • Plaxton Consort YWE 388

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    Does anyone know the history of this Plaxton Consort bodied Bedford SB? It is probably from 1957 and new to a Sheffield area operator. The two colour livery and that wide chrome band betwixt the wheels should be a give-away. Additional clues are the window tops carrying the message “Express, Littleport, Ely, Sheffield” and reversed…

  • Newcastle Training Bus

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    Copyright R. C. Davis Yet another from the job lot, but this one has the following on the back of it. JTN 243 (243) now L918 – Park Royal AEC RT picture by R. C. Davis. The yellow livery dates the photo as post 1949 but from the registration I would say the vehicle is…

  • AEC EVG 426

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    This AEC looks as though it had recently changed hands. The most likely explanation for the odd-coloured square on the side would be to black out the previous owners name. Some contractors would continue to use the vehicle like that, however, I don’t think this is with a contractor because it still has its shiny…

  • Phillips of Shiptonthorpe – Commer Avengers

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    I recently acquired a batch of photographs purporting to be vehicles from the fleet of Phillips of Shiptonthorpe in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Amongst them were to photos of Duple-bodied Commer Avengers GJV 34 and SOV 372. Phillips ran many Avengers, but neither of these vehicles appear in any published fleet lists.Both photographs are…

  • Taken Today 01/01/2013

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    Among the vehicles taking part at todays King Alfred Running Day was this RATP Renault from the 1930’s. Note the UK registration. If you’ve ever seen the book on King Alfred Motor Services, this is one of three similar buses owned by Robert Jowitt, one of the authors of that book. He comments that, when…

  • Two Bradford Questions

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    I have found reading through your website very interesting even though I am in no way technically minded. Between 1943 and 1961 I lived in both Bradford and Stanningley, so over the years I travelled on many trams, trolleys and buses including Bradford Corporation, West Riding and occasionally Ledgard. The thing I most remember about…

  • LUT Loline Replacement Gearbox

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    Gentlemen, can anybody throw light on this one.I drove (1970-1972) for LUT at Swinton, we had 6 Lolines, 6, 7, 36, 37, 38 & 39 principally to get beneath Patricroft station bridge on routes 14 & 22. Some time before 1970, no 6 was involved in an accident in fog with a private train on…

  • London Transport GS Class

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    This year marks the 60th anniversary of London Transport’s GS class. Perhaps the most surprising thing about the GS was that such a competent and handsome bus should emerge from a specification that on paper looks decidedly iffy. Not to put to fine a point on it, it looks like a real bitsa: bitsa this,…

  • The One and Only FRM 1

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    A week or so ago I received quite a few photographs that were the collection of Eddie Collings, they were donated to the Old Bus Photos website by Margaret, Eddies daughter. I was very pleased to find the above shots and Eddie must have known the importance of this vehicle because he took two cameras…