Tag: Duple
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Smiths Luxury Coaches – Dennis Lancet – EDP 820
Copyright Roger Cox Smiths Luxury Coaches (Reading) Ltd1950Dennis Lancet J3Duple FC33F This shot is from the Roger Cox gallery contribution titled “Smith’s Luxury Coaches Dennis Lancets” click on the title if you would like to view his Gallery and comments.The shot is shown here for indexing purposes but please feel free to make any comment…
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Smiths Luxury Coaches – Dennis Lancet J3 – KXX 329
Photograph by Graham Low Smiths Luxury Coaches (Reading) LtdDennis Lancet J31947-50Duple C35F I read with great interest Frank and Derrick’s notes on the Dennises run by Prestwells of Woodhouse Eaves. Unfortunately I’ve no info that might help, but here’s a Dennis Lancet J3 of about 1950 run by Smith’s of Reading until about 1964. The…
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East Kent – Dennis Lancet UF – HJG 18
Copyright Roger Cox East Kent Road Car Co Ltd1954Dennis Lancet UFDuple C41C This picture of East Kent HJG 18, a Dennis Lancet UF with Duple C41C body, was taken in Rye in 1967. East Kent, like fellow BET operator Aldershot & District, was a great fan of the pre war and post war vertical engined…
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East Kent – Dennis Lancet UF – HJG 3
East Kent Road Car Co Ltd1954Dennis Lancet UFDuple C41C This photo taken on Margate seafront in about 1966 shows HJG 3 numerically the first of a batch of 30 Dennis Lancet UF’s fitted with Duple Ambassador C41C bodies delivered to East Kent in 1954 these made up the largest fleet of Lancet UF’s in the…
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Prince of Wales Tours – Dennis Dart – TJ 836
Prince of Wales Tours1933Dennis DartDuple C20R So far as I am aware, Entwhistle & Sons of Morecambe, trading as Prince of Wales tours, only ever had two vehicles. I offered a view of ETC 760B a while ago. Here are two views of their first, a 1933 Dennis Dart with Duple C20R body, with door.…
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Lytham St Annes Corp’n – Daimler CWA6 – FTD 618 – 23
Copyright Roy Cox Lytham St Annes Corporation1943Daimler CWA6Duple H30/26 This shot is from the Roger Cox gallery contribution titled “The People’s League for the Defence of Freedom” click on the title if you would like to view his Gallery and comments.The shot is shown here for indexing purposes but please feel free to make any…
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London Transport – Daimler CWA6 – GXE 578 – D 1
Lower deck facing forward Upper deck facing rearward London Transport1944Daimler CWA6Duple L27/26R Daimler CWA6’s D1 to D6 were delivered to Merton Garage in April-May 1944. They had Duple lowbridge bodies which supplemented the austerity STL bodies which had been fitted onto spare STL chassis in 1942/43. There was still a shortage for the 127 route…
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Widnes Corporation – Daimler CWA6 – FTF 207 – 59
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Widnes Corporation1945Daimler CWA6Duple UL55R – East Lancs L27/28R 1955 This photo was sent to me by Richard Mercer after he had seen the posting of the London Transport Daimler D1 which also had a Duple body, but as Richard points out…
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Huddersfield Corporation – Daimler CWA6 – CCX 778 – 218
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Huddersfield Corporation1945Daimler CWA6Duple L55R This is obviously a pre delivery photograph of a Huddersfield Joint Omnibus Committee vehicle, note the combined Huddersfield/LMS Railway crest on the nearside panels. The bus is in full fleet livery so must date from the end…
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Browns Blue Bus – Daimler CWA6 – GYE 64
Copyright Victor Brumby Browns Blue Bus Service1945Daimler CWA6Duple H27/26R In the 14th. edition of London Transport ABC, a photo of D 179 was shown as belonging to Brown’s Blue Bus Service of Ibstock (Leics.) On 10th January 1958, therefore, I went to Leicester with T. Brown and we saw and rode on such a D.…