Tag: Daimler Fleetline
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Bournemouth Corporation – Daimler Fleetline – CRU 188C – 188
Bournemouth Corporation1965Daimler FleetlineWeymann CO43/31F As is with tradition on the south coast of England most open toppers were named, this bus was named “Northumbria” which is a county in the North East of England. All the the other open toppers of the same batch were also called after counties of England, I would be most…
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Blue Bus Services – Daimler Fleetline – 325 YNU
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Blue Bus Services1962Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXNorthern Counties H40/33F Blue Bus Services was the operating name of Tailby & George who were located at Willington in Derbyshire.This bus was the 54th Fleetline chassis built its sister vehicle registration 324 YNU was the first…
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Bury Corporation – Daimler Fleetline – AEN 835C – 135
Bury Corporation1965Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXEast Lancs H43/31F In 1965 when this shot was taken there was only two rear engined double deck vehicles the Daimler Fleetline and the Leyland Atlantean. The Fleetline had one big advantage over the early Atlanteans in that it had a flat central gangway downstairs and the step up from the ground…
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Hebble – Daimler Fleetline – DJX 351D – 351
Copyright Ian Wild Hebble Motor Services1966Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXNorthern Counties H43/31F This was the only new rear engined double decker purchased by Hebble and originally numbered 351 in their feet. In 1970 it was renumbered 625 but in 1971 it passed to Halifax JOC as their 294 when they bought out the Hebble Stage Services. It…
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Bournemouth Corporation – Daimler Fleetline – ALJ 341B – 41
Copyright Diesel Dave Bournemouth Corporation1964Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXMH Cars H44/33F Here are two photos I took in November 1964 at The Square in Bournemouth of one of the corporations unique Daimler Fleetlines fitted with bodies by MH Cars of Belfast the only bodies by this manufacturer delivered to the UK mainland they were part of an…
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S H M D – Daimler Fleetline – ELG 40F – 40
Copyright Ian Wild Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield1968Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXNorthern Counties H41/27D It’s August 1968 and a wet day in Glossop. One of SHMD Board’s recently delivered Walsall inspired short dual entrance Fleetlines is about to turn at the traffic lights outside the Norfolk Arms on a 127 to Stalybridge. North Western’s Glossop Depot is…
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Nottingham City Transport – Daimler Fleetline – 62 NAU – 62
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Nottingham City Transport1962Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXPark Royal H77F October 2012 saw the 50th anniversary of the introduction of rear engined buses by Nottingham City Transport. The subject of the image is a Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX, fleet number 62, registration number 62 NAU.…
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Glasgow Corporation – Daimler Fleetline – SGD 730 – D 268
Copyright David Lennard Glasgow Corporation1963Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXAlexander H44/34F Sorting through my photos recently I came across this shot taken I think in the late sixties in Glasgow. Whilst at a quick glance it looks like any of the Corporations large fleet of Atlanteans. But, a closer look shows it to be D268 their one and…
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North Western – Daimler Fleetline – JDB 245F – 245
Copyright Ian Lynas North Western Road Car Co1967Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXAlexander H44/31F Here we have one of a batch of North Western Daimler Fleetlines with an Alexander body. According to the PSV Circle Publication PX3 Post-War Second-Hand British Buses in North America mentions that two of the batch 245 and 247, JDB 245E and JDB 247E…
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Birmingham City – Daimler Fleetline – BON 541C – 3541
Birmingham City Transport1965Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXMCCW H39/33F BON 541C is a Daimler Fleetline CRG6 with Metropolitan Cammell body, new to Birmingham City Transport in 1965, with fleet number 3541. On the formation of West Midlands PTE, all she had was a change of lettering in what some of the neighbouring authorities considered to be a take-over…