Tag: Daimler

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…