Old bus photos

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  • Cullings Coach Services Double Deckers

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    My interest in buses from the 1950/60’s has been re-kindled after many years. I have spent many quiet moments reading about the informed comments and facts from your contributors on the Old Bus Photos website. I took several photos when I was thirteen to 15 years old on an old 126 camera in Norwich. The…

  • Manchester’s Upright Profile MCW Orion Bodies

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    Something has puzzled me for decades and perhaps someone on here can provide a definitive answer.As is well known, MCTD’s Albert Neal had no time for the original Orion body and the first batch of the so called upgraded bodies delivered in 1955/6 did not exactly impress. For almost 2 years the department worked with…

  • Colchester Bus Station

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    In the thread “Massey Bodies with Independents” there is a photograph of an ex-Moores Arab leaving Colchester Bus Station, which seems to be as I remember it from a visit in 1984 – with a multi-storey car-park above. I visited Colchester last month: the bus deposited me at what now passes for Colchester’s bus station…

  • X24 Llandudno

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    I have recently purchased a black and white photo of VDB 962, North Western Leyland coach leaving Moseley Street, Manchester for Llandudno, service X24 on a wet day. I wondered if anybody has any details on this route please. Was this a regular route and which route did it take, I’m not sure when the…

  • Illuminated Ads

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    ‘Ctrl +’ zooms in – ‘Ctrl -‘ zooms out – ‘CTRL 0’ (zero) will get you back to normal size. Bus advertising is also a much overlooked topic. I took this from an old magazine about 50 years ago and it occurred to me, looking at the illustration, how these illuminated ads jumped on the…

  • Southern Vectis KDL 413

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    I am hoping to acquire KDL 413, which we have found abandoned in a yard in Denver after 15 years. We hope to re-engine her and get her running and restored into Southern Vectis livery again. Pictures can be seen at this link. Mike Pannell 07/02/13 – 14:19 Brilliant, Mike, and good luck. Have watched…

  • Websters GBU 37

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    Well, all I can say about this is that it has Plaxton bodywork and was registered in Oldham in 1951 as GBU 37. And that’s where the questions start! First of all the radiator cowling isn’t right for a 1951 Venturer on front engined chassis – this design was first shown at the Commercial Motor…

  • Dennis Lancet MTV 358

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    Can anyone tell me what bodywork this Dennis Lancet carried, and who owned it before it passed to Ray Pryce Coaches of Woodville in south Derbyshire? Chassis number 882J3A, photo taken on 7 July 1963 off Moira Road in Woodville. Tim Jeffcoat 24/07/13 – 11:03 According to PSV Circle publication CXB 372 the vehicle is…

  • Mill Transport Bus ANW 679

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    Just sorting through some of my old reject photos when I came across this one of ANW 679. It’s one of a batch which for some reason all ended up with the top deck cut short on the photo. Hence the reject. However, the passage of time makes it interesting. Written on the back in…

  • Blythe & Berwick and B & B Tours

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    Blythe & Berwick of Bradford was I believe the basis of what became the Bradford operation of West Yorkshire Road Car.In the early 50’s B & B Tours became the Samuel Ledgard Bradford operation.Was there some link historically between Blythe & Berwick and B & B Tours ?? Gordon Green 07/11/13 – 11:47 I’m not…