Halifax Corporation Transport and Joint Omnibus Committee
1954
Daimler CVG6
Roe H33/25R
This bus is a “CV” series Daimler the “V” stands for Victory meaning the chassis was built after World War II whereas the preceding series “CW” was for chassis built during the War when the “W” stood for war.
As this bus is a “CV” series it had what was called a “Birmingham Tin Front”, similar to the previous K.H.C.T. AEC Regent III. If it had been a CS/CC series built 1955 onwards the radiator would of been different, and would then of been called a “Manchester Front”. Is there a Tin/Fibre Glass front expert out there that can sort out this radiator business once and for all. When does a “Birmingham” become a “Manchester”.
There is a link to a video of a preserved Halifax Daimler “CV”, all be it two years younger than this bus here please note the difference in the destination boxes from the bus in this photo and the one in the video, more on that at a later date.
A full list of Daimler codes can be seen here.
The Manchester front is the one with the headlamp mounted on the wing, the bonnet itself being narrower than the Birmingham version. It took a Mancunian to realise that short drivers couldn’t see the nearside wing on a Birmingham front so they were forever bashing things!The Birmingham front was also fitted to Crossleys, Guy Arabs and AEC Regent IIIs, whereas the Manchester type only ever appeared on Daimlers. There are two versions of the Manchester front, as CVG6s had a tapering front chassis frame with a 7′ 6″ front axle. CVG6-30s, CCGs & CSGs and the last few CVG6s all had straight frames and 8ft axles, hence a wider front.
David A Jones
29/05/11 – 07:51
Sadly these buses weighed a ton more than the mark III Regent and had 112bhp engines in lieu of 125bhp of the mark III as a result they had a lot of trouble, many were fitted with Leyland O.600 units and later 95 had a 6LXB Gardner whilst 93 had a turbo charged Daimler. So 95 became CVG6LX, 93 CVD6, most of the others CVL6 some retained the 6LW mainly the 116 etc group used on the flatter shorter corporation services.
Christopher