Tag: East Yorkshire
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East Yorkshire – Leyland Panther – GAT 801D – 801
East Yorkshire Motor Services1966Leyland Panther PSUR1/2RMarshall B49F A pair of Panthers owned by East Yorkshire with Marshall bodywork. If you click on Daimler or Halifax Corporation in the side navigation and scroll down to the Daimler Roadliner you can see the similarity of the Marshall bodywork somehow the Daimler has one more seat. The Panther…
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East Yorkshire – Leyland Panther – JRH 323E – 823
East Yorkshire1967Leyland Panther PSUR1/2RWeymann Topaz II The Panther and Panther Cub were Leyland Motors’ rear underfloor-engined offerings during the mid- to late-1960’s. By this time AEC had been taken over and its Swift model shared the same chassis as the Panther, each using their own engines (O600/O680 and AH505/691 respectively), the Panther having a front…
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East Yorkshire – Leyland Lion – WF 1170 – 97
East Yorkshire Motor Services1928Leyland Lion PLSC3Leyland B32R Photograph shows an all-Leyland Lion PLSC3 which was new to East Yorkshire Motor Services as its fleet number 97 in 1928. It is seen here in a later life as a Mobile Canteen for Sheffield Transport Department crews. The Sheffield coat of arms can be seen on the…
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East Yorkshire – Leyland Leopard – 9769 RH – 769
East Yorkshire Motor Services 1964Leyland Leopard PSU3/1RWillowbrook DP47F This East Yorkshire Leyland Leopard is on route to Bradford either from or via Birmingham I am sure that it was taken at Doncaster or maybe Rotherham it was 40 odd years ago, if you know let me know. This dual purpose or as my East Yorkshire fleet…
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East Yorkshire – Leyland A13 – BT 8777 – 54
East Yorkshire Motor Services1923Leyland A13Leyland B26 As photography is my hobby I have been busy restoring the old family photographs and I came across the above shot of my father and the bus he drove, he is the tallest person in the photo, I hope the photo maybe of interest to you. During the First…
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East Yorkshire – AEC Renown – GAT 815D – 815
Copyright Ian Wild East Yorkshire Motor Services1966AEC Renown 3B3RPark Royal H38/30F This was taken at Flamborough on 12 June 1968 in glorious sunshine and about to head off on a Bridlington cross town service. The top deck has the characteristic East Yorkshire inward taper to allow safe passage through the North Bar at Beverley and…
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East Yorkshire – AEC Regent V – VKH 43 – 643
East Yorkshire Motor Services1956AEC Regent VWillowbrook HBB56R Notice the roof this shape was unique to East Yorkshire for one reason the Beverly North Bar. This is the sole survivor of the gateways into the town of Beverly the shape of the arch comes to a point requiring the roof of the bus to do the…
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East Yorkshire – AEC Regent V – WAT 651 – 651
East Yorkshire Motor Services1957AEC Regent VRoe HBB66R Photographed at Scarborough bus station this Beverly Bar styled Regent V with normal V radiator is on route to Bridlington via the Butlins Holiday camp at Filey.I have now found my old fleet lists above information comes from one dated 20th February 1964 the only other snippet of…
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East Yorkshire – AEC Regent V – VKH 34 – 634
Photo by “unknown” – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. East Yorkshire Motor Services1956AEC Regent VWillowbrook HBB56R This is another highbridge Beverly Bar Regent V of East Yorkshire Motor Services this time a view of the near side, but what is very interesting is the single decker behind. You did…
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East Yorkshire – AEC Regent V – VKH 47 – 649
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. East Yorkshire Motor Services1957AEC Regent VWillowbrook L31/28RD Now we have two Regent Vs from a batch of 19 delivered to East Yorkshire in 1956/7 they were fleet numbered 634 – 652.634 to 648 were 27ft in length had AEC 7.68 litre…