Tag: Alan Murray-Rust
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A day out in North Wales, October 1969 – Part Two
Not seen Part One Click here Continuing from where I left off in Anglesey, we now retraced our steps to Bangor, but only briefly as there was plenty more to see and the sun was already on the decline. Purple Motors, Bethesda WTY 906 Bedford SB5 1962 Duple Midland B42F (ex Clarke, Consett 1966) Purple’s…
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A day out in North Wales, October 1969 – Part One
This gallery was prompted by the appearance of John Stringer’s gallery A Tour of Shropshire and North East Wales which coincided with me doing some investigations to fill out details of slides I had been scanning which covered some other independents in the area. Until I was doing the latter, because of the way my…
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Massey Bodies with Independents
Readers who have read Phil Thoms’ excellent book on Massey Bros of Wigan will have noticed that well over 90% of Massey output, particularly in the post-war period, was destined for municipal operators.After the 1948 nationalisation, the remainder went almost exclusively to independent operators, the exceptions being 10 which were exported to Rhodesia and Mozambique,…
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Alder-colours-of-the-rainbow Valley
In the period following the merger of Thames Valley Traction and Aldershot & District Traction in January 1972 to form Alder Valley, the company suffered a severe shortage of vehicles, particularly in the Reading area, partly arising from failing to meet the maintenance standards required by the Vehicle Inspectorate.The result was that over the period…