Photos of my father with Northern General

Some bus photographs of my father and vehicles he drove. He worked for Northern General from1929 until 1973, prior to this he and my uncle had their own bus business in Hetton.

Sunderland Fawcett Street about 1930 with a Midland SOS and a Tramcar
in the background

My father with his conductor in front of a 1929 SOS

Standing in front of an AEC about the middle of the 1950s

Early 1960s with his coach uniform on, they were nicknamed the ‘Chocolate Soldiers’ the bus is a Guy coach with an underfloor Gardner 6LW engine.

Robert McKay
11/2010