Tag: Duple
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Carmel Coaches – Albion Victor – LOD 495
Carmel Coaches1950Albion VictorDuple C??F As there appears to be no picture of this lovely coach on OBP , I am attaching one. It has been in preservation for many years with Carmel Coaches of Northlew in Devon and can still be seen at local events in the West Country. It was for a while used…
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Black and White – AEC Reliance – 8222 AD – 222
Copyright Bob Gell Black and White Motorways1961AEC Reliance 2MU3RVDuple C37C Seen at their base in Cheltenham Coach Station on Sunday 20 August 1967 on Associated Motorways services are two members of the Black and White Motorways fleet. 182 (PAD 182) is a Willowbrook bodied Guy Arab LUF, new in 1955 and 222 (8222 AD) is…
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P M T – AEC Reliance – 4990 VT – C990
Potteries Motor Traction1964AEC Reliance 2U3RADuple C49F Potteries Motor Traction took delivery of six of these fantastic vehicles in 1964 they had the AEC 590 engine and 6 speed ZF manual gearbox. Drivers and passengers loved them, 4989 VT won the 1964 Brighton coach rally. I have not driven a coach before or since as good…
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PMT – AEC Reliance – 4989 VT – C989
Potteries Motor Traction1964AEC Reliance 2U3RADuple C49F Potteries C989 registration 4989 VT was an AEC Reliance 2U3RA with a Duple Commander I body delivered in early 1964. One of it’s early duties was an appearance at that years Brighton coach rally where it won the Coach of the Year trophy with favourable comments from the judges…
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Aldershot & District – AEC Reliance – VCG 596H -596
Aldershot & District Traction Co1970AEC Reliance 6U3ZRDuple C49F Having vacillated for some time before settling upon an underfloor engined saloon chassis, even buying some full fronted Dennis Lancet III coaches in 1953, Aldershot & District finally chose the AEC Reliance as its standard single decker, and stayed with this model for its coach requirements right…
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Eastern Scottish – AEC Regent III – GSF 645 – BB62
Eastern Scottish1949AEC Regent III 9612EDuple L27/26R This would of been a lovely shot apart from the glare on the front upper deck but then again it does not take anything away from the sleek lines of a Duple bodied bus. There is as usual the decoration associated with Duple more a coach than a bus…
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Eastern Belle (London) – AEC Regal III – NXL 847
Copyright Ken Jones Eastern Belle Motor Coaches (London)1953AEC Regal III 6821ADuple C39F I am a contributor to Focus Transport main site, their blogsite and other sites, I hired a 1950’s AEC half canopy as part of my 60th birthday celebrations to take invited guests for lunch in a 1928 Pullman Carriage at the Spotgate Inn…
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Grey Cars – AEC Regal III – LTA 629 – TCR 629
Devon General Omnibus & Touring Co Ltd – Grey Cars1950AEC Regal III 9621ADuple C32F Pictured on the A23 during an HCVC London – Brighton run in the 1970s is LTA 629, an AEC Regal III 9621A (sliding mesh gearbox) with a Duple C32F body that was delivered to the Devon General Grey Cars fleet in…
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Bickers of Coddenham – AEC Regal 1 – GK 3172
Copyright Victor Brumby Bickers of Coddenham1931AEC Regal IDuple C32F Here is a pair of poor photos taken in Great Yarmouth in August 1958. As a London Transport spotter predominantly, I was excited to note the registration GK 3172 on a cream and green AEC coach under the Bickers title – it had to be an…
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Vegas, Super Vegas, and Vega Lookalikes – Part Two
Duple Bodywork on Bedford SB chassis 1950-1962 FS56 VEGA/SUPER VEGA The FS46 Vega had retained most of the styling of the original FS32 range albeit with slightly revised corner glazing at the front end. In October 1953 Duple did a more thorough re-design and came up with the FS56. The “Big Bedford” radiator cowling disappeared…