Tag: Daimler Fleetline
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Demonstrator – Daimler Fleetline – 565 CRW
With – Newcastle Corporation1963Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXAlexander H44/34F 565 CRW; 1963 H44/34F Alexander bodied Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX demonstrator:Over the years, Newcastle Corporation had quite a number of Daimlers, both double and single deck, with a variety of bodies from different coachbuilders, but with the demise of the half cab in favour of front entrance rear engine…
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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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Tynemouth and District – Daimler Fleetline – HFT 367 – 267
Tynemouth and District1963Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXWeymann H44/33F HFT 367, fleet number 267: A Weymann H44/33F bodied Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX. One of 35 delivered to Percy Main between 1963 & 68. The location is the Gibraltar Rock Public House “reflected in the windscreen” this is at the end of Front Street Tynemouth, and was the terminus of…
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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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Leeds City Transport – Daimler Fleetline – 101 LNW – 101
Leeds City Transport (West Yorkshire PTE)1964Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXRoe H41/29F In June 1978 West Yorkshire PTE transferred five Fleetlines 101 – 105 from Leeds to Calderdale. 101 was a 1964 Commercial Vehicle Motor Show exhibit which was unique amongst the batch with a single piece curved windscreen and twin headlamps. It is shown here at Skircoat…
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West Yorkshire PTE – Daimler Fleetline – 105 LNW – 105
West Yorkshire PTE (Calderdale District)1964Daimler Fleetline CRG6Roe H41/29F New to Leeds City Transport, 105 (105 LNW) was one of ten (101-110) Daimler Fleetline CRG6’s with Roe H41/29F bodies delivered in late 1964, 101 differing from the rest in having a curved windscreen and having been exhibited at the Commercial Motor Show in the October.Having passed…
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Maidstone & District – Daimler Fleetline – 76 YKT – DL76
Maidstone & District1964Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXNorthern Counties H44/35F Maidstone and District was an early user of the Leyland Atlantean, taking both normal and lowheight examples classified DH and DL respectively, from 1959 until 1963, when the Daimler Fleetline became the favoured choice. CRG6LX No.DL76, 76 YKT was delivered in September 1964. The Northern Counties body is…
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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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Swindon Corporation – Daimler Fleetline – MWV 151G – 151
Swindon Corporation1969Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXNorthern Counties H43/29F Seen in Brighton on the occasion of the HCVC rally in May 1971 is Swindon Corporation No.151, MWV 151G, with Northern Counties H43/29F bodywork, delivered in January 1969. The Swindon livery always reminded me of Rotherham’s scheme, but colour treatment of the front panel did not impress. Following the…
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Leeds City Transport – Daimler Fleetline – UNW 174H – 174
> Leeds City Transport1969Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXBRoe H45/33D Representative of the concurrent Leeds double deck orders in 1969/70 are these two buses photographed in Leeds in April 1970. On the left is Roe H45/33D bodied Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXB UNW 174H, No.174 delivered in September 1969. Standing alongside is similarly bodied Leyland Atlantean PDR2/1 UNW 404H, No.404…