Tag: Alexander
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Midland Red – Daimler Fleetline – UHA 225H – 6225
Midland Red (Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Co)1969Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXBAlexander H45/30D Midland Red 6225, UHA 225H, is a Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXB with Alexander H45/30D body, and was new in 1969. It has been restored into West Midlands livery and I include a picture of it’s Gardner engine. Both of the shots were taken last weekend…
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North Western – Daimler Fleetline – DDB 174C – 174
North Western Road Car Co1965Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXAlexander H44/31F DDB 174C is a Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX with Alexander H75F bodywork. She was new to North Western in 1965. The company was split in NBC days and, so far as I am aware, she became part of the SELNEC fleet, passing to GMPTE when the ‘new’ county…
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Potteries Motor Traction – Daimler Fleetline – 5001 VT – L 1001
Potteries Motor Traction1964Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXAlexander H41/31F Photographed in June 1970 at Manchester, and mercifully still retaining its Potteries livery and logo, is Daimler CRG6LX Fleetline No. L 1001, 5001 VT, with Alexander H41/31F bodywork, the first of a batch of twenty five delivered in April 1964. Ten similar vehicles followed in 1965. L 1001 seems…
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Aberdeen Corporation – Daimler CV – CRG 325C – 325
Aberdeen Corporation1965Daimler CVG6Alexander H37/29R CRG 325C is a Daimler CVG6 with Alexander H66R bodywork. She entered service with Aberdeen in March 1965. This was one of only three or four Councils in Scotland still with its own Transport Department at Local Government Reorganisation in 1975 [a year later than in England] the undertaking was renamed…
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Lancashire United Transport – AEC Swift – NTC 109G – 292
Copyright John Stringer Lancashire United Transport1969AEC Swift MP2RAlexander B43D LUT’s single deckers were often a little different from the norm. This AEC Swift was one of three (291-293) delivered in either late 1968 or early 1969 (sources differ) along with some similarly bodied Bristol RESL’s. Their Alexander bodies were based on the W-type, but featuring…
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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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PMT – AEC Reliance – KVT 192E – 1092
Potteries Motor Traction1967AEC Reliance 8U2RAlexander C49F A firm favourite of mine was the A.E.C. Alexander Y type, what a difference these buses made to our Excursion and Express allocation. I worked at this time on the P.M.T. based at Newcastle Under Lyme depot none of these vehicles were based there at this time they were…
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PMT – AEC Reliance – PVT 103F – SL1103
Potteries Motor Traction1968AEC Reliance 691 8U2RAAlexander DP49F SL1103 is at the Barlaston terminus of services 24/25 having worked the service from Hanley on 3rd May 1970. Barlaston was a pleasant village on the south eastern side of the Stoke conurbation, it’s main fame at that time being the nearby Wedgwood China factory. This was one…
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Highland Omnibuses – AEC Reliance – EWS 115D – BA26
Highland Omnibuses1966AEC Reliance 590 2U3RAAlexander DP49F Highland Omnibuses BA26 (EWS 115D) was a AEC Reliance with an Alexander Y-type body. It was new to Eastern Scottish, being transferred to Highland in mid-life. I have always thought that there is a fine line between coach and dual-purpose versions of the Y-type. This example was classed as…