Tag: Albion
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Wanted an AEC, but ended up with an Albion
From 1933-4 until 1949-50 Reading Corporation ran a batch of eight Park Royal 6-bay L26/25R AEC Regents, some petrol (mostly later coverted to 7.7 oiler) and some with 8.8 oil engine. The lowbridge bodies were most unusual in having straight staircases, of which you can see a skeletal view on p71 of Alan Townsin’s 1979…
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A Rare find
In July 2002 I spent some time working in Scotland and travelled home by many routes. One such journey was on a B road in Central Scotland and I saw a derelict coach parked in an orchard. I could not see sufficient detail to identify the coach so I made a note to bring my…
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King Alfred – Albion Victor – AAA 756 – Victor 6
King Alfred Motor Services1935Albion Victor PK114Abbott C20C AAA 756 is an Albion Victor PK114 and it dates from 1935, when it was delivered to the King Alfred fleet. It has an Abbott C20C body and is seen outside Winchester Guildhall on 25 April 1993, the running day having been moved to April to mark the…
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Carmel Coaches – Albion Victor – LOD 495
Carmel Coaches1950Albion VictorDuple C??F As there appears to be no picture of this lovely coach on OBP , I am attaching one. It has been in preservation for many years with Carmel Coaches of Northlew in Devon and can still be seen at local events in the West Country. It was for a while used…
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Cheltenham District – Albion Venturer CX19 – HDG 448 – 72
Cheltenham District1949Albion Venturer CX19Metro Cammell H56R Cheltenham District was never quite the public transport company it seemed. Always privately owned until the late ’40’s, it always appeared to be a municipal operation, compounded by the town crest its vehicles always bore on the sides.In tramway days, a sprinkling of Guy BB’s supplemented its tram services,…
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Hanson – Albion Valkyrie CX13 – DCX 886 – 236
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Hanson1947Albion Valkyrie CX13H.V. Burlingham B35F Seen at the end of its days this Albion Valkyrie of the Huddersfield independent “Hanson” what a sad sight. The CX13 bus chassis was first built in 1937 production lasted three years to 1940 and then…
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South Yorkshire – Albion Valkyrie – GWT 630 – 61
South Yorkshire Motors1947Albion Valkyrie CX13Burlingham C33F GWT 630 is a former South Yorkshire Albion Valkyrie CX13 of 1947 vintage, though some sources say that it entered service in 1948. It is pictured on the HCVC Brighton Rally in 1971, but after a change of ownership, it subsequently underwent a complete restoration in 2009. The Burlingham…
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South Yorkshire – Albion Valkyrie – EWX 569 – 60
Photo taken by R. F. Mack South Yorkshire Motors1946Albion Valkyrie CX13Pickering B34F No 60 one of three vehicles bodied by Pickering of Wishart, parked outside the South Yorkshire Garage in Cornmarket Pontefract.These were used often as duplicates on the long Doncaster-Leeds service sometimes not all the way from Doncaster. If the normal double decker was…
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Red & White – Albion Valkyrie CX13 – FWO 646 – S1447
Red & White Services 1947Albion Valkyrie CX13Bristol (Body Building Works -BBW) B35R Living in Clevedon, Red and White territory was very close and could be seen easily but was not accessible except by paddle steamer, the mildly frightening Aust car ferry or a drive through Gloucester! This photo was taken on 24/03/1963, probably in Chepstow, on…
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Charlie’s Cars – Albion Valiant – LJ 9501 – 57
Charlie’s Cars (Bournemouth)1934Albion ValiantHarrington C32F In my early days of working in Southampton, I worked with a fellow whose Secondary School days had been spent in Christchurch, then in Hampshire. He commented several times about the firm ‘Charlie’s Cars’, saying that one of his teachers was something of a snob who refused to use the…