Tag: Douglas Corporation
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Douglas Corporation – Leyland Comet – KMN 519 – 21
Douglas Corporation1959Leyland Comet CPO1Park Royal B30F We don’t often see a Leyland Comet with bus or coach body, as it was normally considered to be a lorry chassis, and we see even fewer in Municipal liveries, but Douglas Corporation’s fleet was renowned for being “different”! KMN 519 is an example of the CPO1 model, with…
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Douglas Corporation – AEC Regent III RT – GMN 905 – 54
Photo by M Standeven Douglas Corporation1947AEC Regent III RTNorthern Counties H30/25R This is a RT type Regent as its chassis number was O961 186 a provincial Regent III would have a chassis number beginning O9612 000 the 2 stood for series 2. A good way to tell an RT from a Provincial Regent is a…
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Douglas Corporation – AEC Regent III – HMN 690 – 59
Photo by M Standeven Douglas Corporation1947AEC Regent III O961/2Northern Counties H30/26R A nice shot of a very early AEC Regent III taken on the Isle of Man about 1964/5. The Northern Counties bodywork that Douglas Corporation seemed to favour is quite obvious by the front upper deck.An interesting bit of information I came up with…
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Douglas Corporation – AEC Regent I – DMN 650 – 50
Photo by M Standeven Douglas Corporation1939AEC Regent INorthern Counties H27/25R The AEC Regent I first appeared at the 1929 Olympia show it was more or less a cut down version of the six wheeled AEC Renown. AEC coded the early Regents chassis 661 has it had a 6 cylinder 6.1 litre petrol engine, it was…