Category: Questions
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95/96 Didsbury to Whitefield Bus Routes
Can anyone tell me when these 2 bus routes first started to run to Whitefield as a friend of mine insists that these did not run in the 1950,s as these routes had the service of numbers 24/17 to Salford. Barry Waters 03/03/14 – 11:29 The new cross town 95 and 96 joint service between…
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Which Company and What Vehicle
I travelled by school bus from Hemingford Grey To Ramsey in Huntingdonshire from 1952 to 1958. I believe the company was Whippet, but may have been Premier Travel.Can anyone confirm the company and the model of double deckers used on the route. This query has arisen following a recent conversation with a bus enthusiast. Roger…
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Lincolnshire Road Car Co Garage Codes
Having found a site where a group has knowledge of something I’m working on, I was hoping that it might be possible to glean some data which I’m missing.Let me reiterate.My project is called EAST.MOG and is one of a series I have produced for the OS, this one covering Eastern Counties Omnibus, Eastern National…
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London Transport Body Builders Plates
Can anyone help with a question I have relating to LT body builders plates from RT and RTL buses? I recently rode on an RTL and noticed that the builders plate stated the fact that it was built by Leyland Motors! I have a plate in my possession from a RT and the plate has…
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Why did the BTC/THC Stick Rigidly to a Bristol/ECW Purchasing Policy
Apologies if this has been asked/answered before.Has anyone ever satisfactorily explained why the BTC/THC (with the exception of some lightweight buses and coaches and vehicles ordered by other operators) stuck rigidly to a Bristol/ECW purchasing policy whereas the Scottish Bus Group dual-sourced from both within and outside the state sector. Was it something to do…
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London Transport ST798 – GO 5164 (RN17787) – Anti-submarine Simulator
Jas Stirling once told me, years ago, that there was thought to be an ex-London ST walled-up somewhere in Jerusalem, having been a (military?) canteen and kept for old times’ sake from the breakers there. Did anyone else ever hear that odd rumour? Jas said that he thought a group was attempting to locate and…
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Thornycroft SG/NR6
Can anyone tell me the registrations of the 5 Thornycroft SG/NR6 coaches new to Bristol Coop Society coaches with Longwell Green bodies new in 1948 Geoff Clayton 04/12/15 – 10:04 This article in Commercial Motor of 7th May 1948 may help. http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/ Stephen Howarth 05/12/15 – 14:30 I’ve attached a link, showing one of these…
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Yorkshire Woollen District Extended Tigers
I am a bus modeller with a lifelong interest in Leyland buses, although other makes also go through my workshops from time to time. Although we are now sixty years on after the event, it seems that there was a heck of a lot of lengthening of single deckers going on within the BET in…
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Wilts & Dorset Bedford VALs
I was looking at an article relating to the centenary this year of Wilts & Dorset and clicked on to a website that was mentioned in the text, as I scrolled down the page I came upon a handsome photo of a line-up of Bedford VALs in W&D livery all parked ready for a departure…
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Crosville Bus circa 1965
I am trying to find image of typical single floor Crosville that went route Rhydymwyn/Mold around 1965 any ideas please? Gayl 07/08/15 – 17:01 Hi GaylI can’t find any photos taken in Mold, but perhaps this link will give you an idea of the sort of bus operating in your area. This one was taken…