Category: Questions
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PSV Badges
With regards to PSV Badges can you please tell me if there is a way to find out how old they are, I have one number KK44508. Reg Hart 16/08/11 – 07:19 KK41880 (mine) dates from May 1964. Hope that helps! Ian Thompson 17/08/11 – 07:26 My first driver’s badge was BB 50787 – Yorkshire…
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Omnibus Station on North Road Durham
Hi I am looking for a plan of the old Omnibus Station on North Road, Durham City for a model I am building; also details (destination number, type of bus and route) for the bus that serviced Browney Colliery. George Kelley 27/09/11 – 06:50 After a full day racking her brain my wife may have…
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Autovac
I believe that the metal box to be found on the external nearside of petrol-engined buses was called an AUTOVAC. If so, what did this piece of equipment actually do? I can find no mention of the device on the web. Chris Hebbron 15/11/11 – 11:09 The AUTOVAC is a fuel lifting and supply device,…
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AEC Regent 11
I came across an old photo of what I think is an AEC Regent 11 with a registration mark of MWL 977 on the wall at Pinewood studio . I would like to know if anyone has any info on her? My family own FUF 63 so have an interest in AEC. Garry Brace 20/03/12…
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A Kind of Money Jar
Please can anyone shed some light on a subject for me. I have tried researching about a kind of money jar for want of better wording. It was a kind of ticket machine but with a glass jar for holding the coins that I seem to vaguely remember from the Yorkshire Traction bus I used…
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Gay Hostess Coaches
Can anyone throw some light on a puzzling thing that is bothering me relating to Ribble/Standerwick/Scout Gay Hostess Coaches? In the early/middle 1960s I was living in Patchway very near to the present day M4/M5 interchange, I took my young son down to the (then) main A38 trunk road to see the heavy congestion that…
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Sunderland Crossley Alpha
Does anyone know the current location or status of the ex-Sunderland Blagg-bodied Crossley Alpha GR 7100 that is supposed to be still in existence in the Reading/Maidenhead area? Norman Lowe 28/10/12 – 09:20 If it’s the one I’m thinking about, it’s still unrestored but in very safe, dry storage, along with fellow-Crossley Reading 85 (ERD…
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Bedford OWB Identity
Another request for information, this is troubling me because I should know it but unfortunately I don’t! It is HRB 37, Bedford OWB with standard utility body. With the Derbyshire registration (where I live!) I presume it was allocated to an operator in Derbyshire who ran a stage service. Does anyone know who it was,…
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Charlton-on-Otmoor Services
Where I grew up we had no Leyland Tiger Cubs around. I used to think of them as rather characterless boxes on wheels, but when I drove a couple (only once each) for Charlton-on-Otmoor Services, NE of Oxford, in the early seventies, I came to appreciate what a delightful machine they are. The impression was…
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Empress Coaches of Stockbridge
I have desperately been trying to find some photographs of Empress coaches of Stockbridge. My Grandfather was a driver for them before he left for national service. We have one photo of him stood in front of what looks to be an early Leyland Tiger. I would be grateful of any images at all you…