Tag: Cravens
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland TD4 – RV 9404 – 150
Copyright A M Lambert Portsmouth Corporation 1937 Leyland Titan TD4 Cravens H26/24R Having dabbled with Leyland TD1 & 2’s, Crossley Condors, an AEC Regent and some TSM’s, with bodies spread amongst Short, Park Royal, Leyland and English Electric, CPPTD settled on a large order for 30 Leyland TD4’s with Cravens’ bodies, to the same pattern…
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Exeter Corporation – Leyland Tiger – EFJ 666 – 66
Exeter Corporation1938Leyland Tiger TS8Cravens B32R Here we have Exeter City 66, a Leyland Tiger TS8 with Cravens B32R body and dates from 1938. It is owned by Colin Shears and is part of the West of England Transport Collection based at Winkleigh in North Devon. Here it is seen in the late evening working a…
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Sheffield Corporation – Bedford VAS1 – KWA 811D – 11
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1966Bedford VAS1Craven B22F ‘Mini-bus opens new field for city firm’ – says the Sheffield Telegraph newspaper in January 1966. Sheffield Transport had agreed to buy a prototype of a new design of a small bus developed by Cravens Ltd, a Company which had built a number of single and double deck…
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East Midland – AEC Regent III RT – KGK 750 – D47
East Midland Motor Services1949AEC Regent III RTCravens H56R You can almost smell the workshop in this view!This ex-London Transport Regent RT came to East Midland with the take-over of Wass, Mansfield in April 1958. D47 was gone in 1960 – to A1 Service, Ardrossan. Photograph and Copy contributed by Les Dickinson 26/05/13 – 10:31 Nice…
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London Transport – AEC Regent III RT – JXC 194 – RT 1431
London Transport1949AEC Regent III RTCraven H30/26R After operational trials with the revolutionary new chassis during 1938, initially equipped with a 1932 vintage open staircase ST body, the RT prototype re-appeared in August 1939 with an advanced all metal body of very graceful appearance built by Chiswick. An order was placed for 150 of the modern…
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Sheffield Corporation – AEC Regent III – LWB749 – 249
Sheffield Corporation1949AEC Regent III 9612ECraven H30/26R A pair of withdrawn Craven bodied Regent III are evident in this picture taken on the parking area behind East Bank Garage in May 1966. Further along the row is another one with the front number plate in the raised position (presumably to reduce accidental damage). The next in…
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Provincial – AEC Regent I – DAU 462 – 62
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Provincial (Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Co)1937AEC Regent ICraven H56R Here is another of the four ex Nottingham Regents that Provincial acquired in 1954 it was fleet number 220 in the Nottingham fleet. According to Stephen Didymus this vehicle was partially rebuilt…
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Red Bus Service – AEC Regal – Craven – VO 6806
Red Bus Service1931AEC Regal 662Craven B32F VO 6806 is a petrol-engined AEC Regal 662 with Craven B32F body new in 1931 to Bevan & Barker Ltd. (t/a Red Bus Service), Warsop Road Garage, Mansfield, one of three similar vehicles. The company was taken over by Mansfield District Traction on 1st January 1957 along with eight…
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Portsmouth Corporation – AEC 661/EE – RV 9148 – 294
Copyright Barry Cox Portsmouth Corporation1937AEC 661T/English ElectricCraven H26/26R Portsmouth Corporation had 115 trolleybuses in its fleet.The first 15 (1934) were a motley collection of chassis/electrical equipment and bodies, four and six wheelers, bought for evaluation.The next nine (1935/36) were, to me, the most handsome of them all, were AEC/EE ones with English Electric bodies. Unable…