Tag: East Kent
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East Kent Road Car Co Ltd
Another set of photos from the album. Roy Dodsworth01/2016 Registration CJG 948 was a 1947 Leyland Titan PD1A with Leyland L27/26R bodywork. Registration EFN 570 was a 1950 Dennis Falcon P3 with, originally a Dennis B20F body, it was reseated to B25F in 1956 then reseated again to B29F in 1959. Registration PFN 870 was…
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East Kent – Leyland Titan TD4 – JG 7017
East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd. 1936 Leyland Titan TD4 ECW L27/28R In 1936, East Kent received twenty examples of the Leyland TD4, JG 7010-29, all fitted with Brush L27/26R bodywork with curiously outmoded piano front destination displays (though these were rebuilt with conventional destination indicators before the outbreak of WW2). They were immediately followed…
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East Kent – Leyland Tiger – CFN 104
East Kent1948Leyland Tiger PS1/1Park Royal C32R CFN 104 is a Tiger PS1/1 from the East Kent fleet. She has Park Royal body, listed as C32R. It has been discussed at length on these pages in the past, but I find it annoying that the vehicle clearly has a door, but the standard PSVC terminology doesn’t…
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East Kent – Ford Thames 570E – TJG 440
East Kent Road Car Co Ltd1960Ford Thames 570EHarrington Crusader Mk1 C41F East Kent Road Car Co Ltd. bought this smart unique vehicle into the fleet at the start of the 1960’s, this was a common sight with the coach touring fleets around the country but for East Kent, this was a one off. A Ford…
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East Kent – Dennis Lancet – HJG 6
East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd.1954 – 1957Dennis Lancet UF – Guy Arab IVDuple C41C – Park Royal H33/28RD East Kent’s first foray into underfloor engined vehicles occurred in 1951 when six Leyland Royal Tigers with ornate but rather uncertainly styled Park Royal coach bodies arrived in 1951. In 1953 came two more Royal Tigers,…
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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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East Kent – AEC Reliance – MJG 48
Copyright Brendan Smith East Kent Road Car Co Ltd1957AEC Reliance MU3RVBeadle C32C When new, this handsome-looking vehicle would have worn East Kent’s traditional coach livery of maroon and cream. In the photo it is seen towards the end of its East Kent days, still on active coaching duties, but wearing a revised livery of grey…
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East Kent – AEC Reliance – MJG 42
East Kent Road Car Co Ltd1957AEC Reliance MU3RVBeadle C32C It’s a fine warm day on 12th July 1969 as this East Kent coach stands outside Lichfield cathedral on a private hire (assumed as it is unlikely at 12 years old to be on an extended tour). The entrance door and forward emergency exit are both…
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East Kent – AEC Regent V – MFN 946F
East Kent Road Car Company1967AEC Regent V 3D3RAPark Royal H40/32F This photograph, copyright of the ‘M & D and East Kent Bus Club’, shows East Kent Road Car Company MFN 946F in the guise of one of the holiday exhibition buses which toured northern towns in the 1960s to publicise the holiday resorts in Kent…