Tag: Duple
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Red and White Guy L1749 – Part Three
Not seen Part One click hereor Part Two click here This is the third and final part of my gallery regarding preserved Red & White Guy Arab III L1749. It shows her in the condition she is in today, I have also included a selection of internal shots which depict the lowbridge seating arrangement and…
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Red and White Guy L1749 – Part Two
Not seen Part One click here This is the second part of my gallery regarding preserved Red & White Guy Arab III L1749. It shows photographs of chassis and body restoration ending with a complete respray to the original livery of Red & White pre the BTC Tillings take over. Ken Morgan04/2011 Under Preservation After…
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Red and White Guy L1749 – Part One
My wife and I are the present owners of Red & White Services Duple bodied Guy Arab III double decker HWO 342 Fleet No L1749, which I helped to restore to a roadworthy condition in 2003 in Cinderford, in the Forest of Dean, after nearly 30 years of neglect. In 2004 the owner Andy Mayo,…
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Lewis Meridian – Sentinel SLC/6/30 – PXE 761
Copyright Pete Davies Lewis Meridian 1955 Sentinel SLC/6/30 DupleC41C PXE7 61 is a Sentinel SLC/6/30, built in 1955. She has a Duple body (C41C when new to Lewis Meridian of Greenwich) but the bodywork has been altered in this view. We see her parked at East Boldre, near Beaulieu, on 13 April 1986, having been…
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White Heather – LGOC CC Class – GF 7254 – 12 (ex LT 1000)
Copyright D A Jones White Heather 1930 LGOC CC Class with Meadows Engine Duple C??C When Chris Youhill posted his Daimler/Brush Hybrid HGF 948, it made me search out another such vehicle. Although LGOC’s associate, AEC, had designed the AEC Renown chassis and they had gone into service in 1929 as the LT class, LGOC…
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Wallace Arnold Tours – Leyland Tiger – LUB 260
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Wallace Arnold Tours Leeds1948Leyland Tiger PS1Duple C33F This photo is another from my dusty collection of postcards bought many years ago, and recently extracted from the proverbial shoebox. This view of Wallace Arnold coach LUB 260 was taken by an unknown…
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Wakefields Motors – Leyland Tiger TS8 – FT 45?4 – 104
Photograph by “unknown” – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Wakefields Motors1937Leyland Tiger TS8Duple C30F Regarded by many as one of the most handsome pre war coach bodies, if my information is correct, Wakefields Motors had four of these C30F Duple Coronations. FT 45?4/7 – 104/7, from 1937, were on…
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Ribble – Leyland Tiger – FV 5737 – 753
Ribble Motor Services1936Leyland Tiger TS7Duple C31F FV 5737, Leyland Tiger TS7, was new to W C Standerwick of Blackpool in 1936. In the post-war years, she was transferred across to the Ribble fleet and given this Duple C31F body in 1950. In the renumbering system, she became 753. She’s seen at the Winkleigh Open Day…
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Southdown – Leyland Tiger Cub – MUF 637 – 637
Southdown Motor Services Ltd1954Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/1Duple/Nudd B39F The recent posting of the Edinburgh Guy Arab re-bodied by Nudd Brothers & Lockyer reminded me of this batch of saloons delivered to Southdown in 1954. This batch of Leyland Tiger Cubs were numbered 620-639 registered MUF 620-639 with B39F seating layout which oddly had a single…
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Edward Thomas and Son – Leyland Tiger Cub – 6217 PU
Edward Thomas and Son1961Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/2Duple C41F This is a Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/2 with a Duple Donington C41F body that was bought initially for staff transport by the Shell Oil company in 1961. It went to Edward Thomas of West Ewell, near Epsom, Surrey in November 1968, who in turn disposed of it…