Tag: AEC Reliance
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Ribblesdale – AEC Reliance – KBV 251
Ribblesdale1958AEC Reliance MU3RV Yeates C41F Here is another photo taken with parents 127 Kodak at Scarborough coach station in the summer of 1965 I am afraid it is a little out of focus. Each of this pair of AEC Reliances according to what I can find out were owned by separate companies but garaged under the…
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Chiltern Queens – AEC Reliance – KBV 778
Chiltern Queens of Woodcote1958AEC Reliance MU3RVPlaxton Consort C41C The above AEC Reliance chassis No 1598 fitted with a Plaxton Consort C41C body No 2355 was supplied new to Batty Holt Ribblesdale of Blackburn Lancashire in 1958.I bought the coach off a preservationist in Farnham Surrey in 1982 who had acquired it from Chiltern Queens of…
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Halifax Corporation – AEC Reliance MU3RV – NRK 350 – 261
Photographer unknown : if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Halifax Corporation Transport and Joint Omnibus Committee1955AEC Reliance MU3RVPark Royal C41C Here is a rather nice looking coach which Halifax Corporation acquired in 1966. According to one source of information Halifax acquired it from Timpson of London but according to another…
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Rochdale Corporation – AEC Reliance – GDK 324D – 24
Rochdale Corporation1966AEC Reliance 6MU2RAWillowbrook B45F Rochdale were always a good customer for AEC vehicles especially single deckers all from 1940 were AEC. Front engined Regals to start with to rear engined Swifts with the very dependable underfloor Reliance in between, the above does look quite smart with its Willowbrook body. I do like the roof…
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T Severn & Sons – AEC Reliance – PYG 605
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. T Severn & Sons Ltd.1956AEC Reliance MU3RVPark Royal B41F Not the best of shots, depot shots very rarely are especially if shooting towards a window. But I think it is worth it as these vehicles were owned by another of the…
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PMT – AEC Reliance – 693 AEH – SN7693
Copyright Ian Wild Potteries Motor Traction1957AEC Reliance 470Weymann B44F This is one of many AEC Reliance 470 with standard BET style Weymann bodies (B44F) operated by PMT. This particular example dates from 1957 denoted by the 7 prefix to the fleet number. Allocated to Milton Depot at the time, it has come to grief sliding…
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Boddys Coaches – AEC Reliance – VBT 893
Copyright Bob Gell Boddy’s Coaches (Bridlington)1958AEC Reliance MU3RVYeates C41F This photograph was taken on 26 June 1958 at North Landing, Flamborough, adjacent to the terminus of the East Yorkshire route from Bridlington.It is one of my very first transport photographs, taken during a family holiday at Flamborough. One attraction would no doubt have been the…
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PMT – AEC Reliance – 882 REH – SN882
Copyright Michael Crofts Potteries Motor Traction 1961AEC RelianceAlexander B45F The Reliance in the snow above was being driven by myself on route 64 Newcastle under Lyme to Market Drayton on the A53 road just south of Loggerheads, traffic in front was getting stuck on a hill ahead of us called Hennel Brooke. The AEC’s were delivered…
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Boddy’s Coaches – AEC Reliance – VBT 191
Copyright K Easton Boddy’s Coaches (Bridlington)1958AEC Reliance MU3RVYeates C41F In 1958, Boddy’s Motors (John Boddy & Son) purchased a trio of AEC Reliances type MU3RV, which were bodied by Yeates with their Europa bodywork. There was seating for 41 passengers and was fitted with front entrance and exit doors. The first two VBT 191/2, were…
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Northern General – AEC Reliance – EFT 551 – 2154
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. The Northern General Transport Company1961AEC Reliance 2MU3RVBurlingham Seagull 70 C41F On the subject of bus liveries that has been discussed on this site recently. Some operators seemed to adopt a one style fits all livery that hardly varied from one type…