Tag: Brush
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Pennine – Leyland Royal Tiger – MTC 757 & MTD 235
Both photographs by “unknown” – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Pennine Motor Services MTC 757 – 1950 – Leyland Royal Tiger PSU1/13 – Brush B44F MTD 235 – 1952 – Leyland Royal Tiger PSU1/15 – Leyland C41C There has been some discussion on another posting about the former…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Karrier WL6/2 – TP 4835 – 46
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Copyright CPPTD Portsmouth Corporation1927Karrier WL6/2Brush H32/28R Portsmouth Corporation, primarily a tram operator at this time, having dabbled with some Thornycroft J’s, Guy J’s, Dennis 50 cwt’s, an LGOC B Class, Dennis E’s and a Karrier CL, then decided to go for…
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West Bridgford – Daimler CWA6 – GNN 410 – 25
Photo by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. West Bridgford Urban District Council1945Daimler CWA6Brush H30/26R Here is a fine example of a utility body built just at the end of the war all very square and flat with little if any panel beating due to using unskilled labour to…
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London Transport – Daimler CWA6 – GXV 785 – D 54
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. London Transport1945Daimler CWA6Brush H5?R An Austin 12/4 Low Loader taxi fronts this Regent Street evocative scene. Many of these were commandeered by the London Fire Brigade to haul portable pumps during the Blitz, a task for which they were greatly under-powered!The…
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Samuel Ledgard – Daimler CWA6 – HGF 948
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Samuel Ledgard1946Daimler CWA6Brush C36C Life for an enthusiast working for Samuel Ledgard was always full of intriguing surprises and developments, some of which are enigmas to this very day and will almost certainly now remain so. The saga of HGF 948…
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Blue Bus Services – Daimler CW – HRB 686
Blue Bus Services1944Daimler CWA6Brush L27/28R I came across this photo some time ago but I have no idea if any copyright restrictions apply. Its unusual in that it shows a Blue Bus Services Daimler utility rather than more common photos of the later Daimlers they used. The bus is leaving Derby Central Bus Station probably…
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Derby Corporation – Daimler CVD6 – BCH 135 – 35
Copyright Ian Wild Derby Corporation Transport1949Daimler CVD6Brush H30/26R I don’t know a great deal about Derby buses. This was taken on a short visit in August 1967. It’s a Daimler CVD6 with I think a Brush body. The olive green and cream livery was quite unusual and sombre and the provision of a polished rear…
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Mansfield District – AEC Regent III – KAL 697 – 159
Mansfield District Traction Co Ltd1949AEC Regent III 9612EBrush H30/26R A busy scene here in the centre of Mansfield finds ex Ebor Bus Company KAL 697 amongst lorries and shopping laden pedestrians. The bus was new to Ebor in June 1949 has their fleet number 23, so was all but 19 years old at the time…
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Midland Red – AEC Regent II – JHA 49 – 3148
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Midland Red (Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co)1948AEC Regent IIBrush H30/26R This photograph of Midland Red buses at Stourbridge bus station in the late 1950’s/early 1960’s, comes from my collection of postcards bought as an aide memoire of my early bus…