Tag: Daimler
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Salford City Transport – Daimler CVG6 – CRJ 417 – 417
Copyright Peter Williamson Salford City Transport1950Daimler CVG6Metro-Cammell H28/26R Between 1950 and 1952 Salford City Transport placed in service 195 Daimler CVG6 double deckers with Metro-Cammell Phoenix bodies, all featuring Birmingham-style straight staircases and traditional polished wood interior window frames. Apart from another 15 CVG6s with Burlingham bodies purchased at the same time (a mixture of…
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Rotherham Corporation – Daimler CVG6 – MET 125 – 125
Copyright John Stringer Rotherham Corporation1955Daimler CVG6Weymann L27/26R After years of handling crash gearboxed Bristols and latterly Crossleys, Rotherham Corporation’s drivers probably had mixed feelings about being presented with their first preselectors in the form of these 1955 Daimler CVG6’s. In certain respects physically easier to drive than what had gone before, they would have had…
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West Bromwich – Daimler CVG6 – GEA 165/159 – 165/159
Copyright John Stringer West Bromwich (County Borough of) Transport Dept1952Daimler CVG6Weymann H30/26R Actually pictured during their final West Midlands P.T.E. days – though there is little here to suggest it – this fine pair of former West Bromwich Corporation Daimler CVG6’s with traditionally shaped Weymann H30/26R bodywork was caught taking an off-peak rest at the…
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West Bromwich – Daimler CVG5 – FEA 156 – 156
West Bromwich (County Borough of) Transport Dept1952Daimler CVG5Metro-Cammell B38R To return to West Bromwich, near contemporaries of the GEA registered Daimler double deckers, a pair of which were posted on site a week or so ago, were a batch of single deckers. The chassis were built in 1948, but due to pressure of work at…
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Burwell and District – Daimler CV – PHP 220
Burwell and District Motor Services1952Daimler CVG6Northern Counties H33/28R Burwell and District was a small company based in the Cambridgeshire village of that name, just to the north west of Newmarket. Like many such operators, it began just after WW1 when Mr Mansfield, a cycle and motor agent in the village, bought a 20 seat Model…
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SELNEC PTE – Daimler CVG6 – TRJ 128 – 4017
SELNEC PTE1962Daimler CVG6Metro-Cammell H37/28R (Orion) During the Selnec era, quite a number of ex-Salford buses were transferred to the former Manchester Corporation Depot at Queens Road. Most of these were Leyland Atlanteans and PD2’s, which would be quite at home among the ex-Manchester Leylands based here, although I wondered what the Queens Road crews made…
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Rotherham Corporation – Daimler CVG – CET 76C – 76
Rotherham Corporation1965Daimler CVG6LXRoe H39/31F It’s an August Sunday evening in 1967 at the Chapeltown terminus of the service from Rotherham. Huddersfield had batches of almost identical vehicles but these Rotherham ones were classy – they had hopper saloon windows! I never travelled on a Rotherham example but I hope they had more comfortable seats than…
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Lancaster City Transport – Daimler CV – NTF 466 – 466
Lancaster City Transport1952Daimler CVG5Northern Counties B35F NTF 466 is a Daimler CVG5 with Northern Counties B35F body, built for Lancaster City Transport in 1952. There were three of them, but 467 and 468 were withdrawn in 1958. They had B32R bodies [with door!] when new and 466 was converted in the operator’s workshops to forward…
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Huddersfield Corporation – Daimler CVG6 – HVH 472D – 472
Huddersfield Corporation1966Daimler CVG6LX.30DDEast Lancs H41/29F This is the last Huddersfield Corporation vehicle delivered (numerically) with a front engine and is currently preserved. It was new in 1966 to the Corporation, being withdrawn in 1980, having served 6 years with the WYPTE.The photo was taken in 2005 at a local bus rally and shows the vehicle…
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Aberdeen Corporation – Daimler CV – CRG 325C – 325
Aberdeen Corporation1965Daimler CVG6Alexander H37/29R CRG 325C is a Daimler CVG6 with Alexander H66R bodywork. She entered service with Aberdeen in March 1965. This was one of only three or four Councils in Scotland still with its own Transport Department at Local Government Reorganisation in 1975 [a year later than in England] the undertaking was renamed…