Tag: Bristol MW
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United Automobile – Bristol MW6G – 517 LHN – UE517
United Automobile Services1959Bristol MW6GECW DP39F These dual purpose vehicles were purchased for the North East to London route it had coach seats and maybe a bit more leg room but apart from that it was still just a bus. I think when I took this photo in 1966 they had been moved on to shorter…
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United Automobile – Bristol MW5G – 929 JHN – U529
United Automobile Services1959Bristol MW5GECW B45F This is the bus version of a 1959 Bristol MW as opposed to the dual purpose one 6 buses ago, there is quick link to it here. This bus version has a 5 cylinder Gardner engine where the DP version had a 6 cylinder engine probable because of the long…
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United Automobile – Bristol MW6G – FHN 19C – U719
United Automobile Services1965Bristol MW6GECW B45F This is the Bristol MW version with what I think has a very good looking front I think they got the idea from the SUL and improved on it. In all the time I have been on the web researching other buses I have never seen a photo of a…
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Lincolnshire – Bristol MW5G – SFU 848 – 3021
Lincolnshire Road Car Company1958Bristol MW5GECW DP41F Another photo taken in Scarborough coach park of a Bristol “MW” series single decker but this time in the fleet of the Lincolnshire Road Car Company Ltd. This vehicle was classed as “dual purpose” meaning it was a bus with “nearly but not quite” a coach standard of interior.…
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Crosville – Bristol MW6G – 916 VFM – EMG 417
Photo by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Crosville Motor Services1961Bristol MW6GECW DP41F Crosville at its head office at Chester and had its boundaries at St Helens (N) Newcastle under Lyme (E) Cardigan (S) and Aberdaron (W) including the Island of Anglesey that is a very big area to…
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United Automobile – Bristol MW6G – 7545 HN – UE545
United Automobile Services1962Bristol MW6GECW DP41F Previous shots of United Automobile single deck vehicles on this site have been bus bodied or coach bodied, here we have a dual purpose bodied MW6G. United as like many other of the Tilling group had a different livery for each type of vehicle body. United’s dual purpose vehicles livery…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol MW6G – AWU 466B – 1146
Copyright Brendan Smith West Yorkshire Road Car Company1964Bristol MW6GECW DP41F Originally numbered SMG38, this vehicle became 1146 in West Yorkshire’s 1971 renumbering programme. It was one of twenty-six MW6G buses delivered to WY in 1963/64 – these being the first new single-decker WY buses for some time. For quite a few years previously, the Company…
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Hants & Dorset – Bristol MW6G – 7123 LJ – 1833
Copyright Pete Davies Hants & Dorset Motor Services1962Bristol MW6GECW C39F This Bristol MW with, as it was called then, the “New Look” design was new to Hants & Dorset as their fleet number 887 in June 1962. In 1963 the batch (882 – 887) were down seated to C30F for extended tours, but reverted to…
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Western National – Bristol MW6G – 253 KTA – 2270
Copyright Ken Jones Western National Omnibus Co Ltd 1962Bristol MW6GECW C39F This is a Bristol MW6G from 1962 with second style MW ECW C39F body, and was hired from Western National to London Country Bus Services Limited in 1975 to 1977. In 2000 it was in service with Memory Lane Vintage Omnibus Services. It has been…
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Cumberland – Bristol MW6G – AAO 34B – 231
Cumberland Motor Services1964Bristol MW6GECW B45F Cumberland 231 (AAO 34B) was a 1964 Bristol MW6G with the standard Eastern Coachworks B45F body. Of interest is the T-style destination display, which required the front dome to be raised above the natural roofline of the bus. ECW always managed to make this feature look like a natural part…