Tag: Eastern Counties
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A Quick Norwich Tour 1969/70
Half-a-dozen photographs from 1969/70 around the Norwich Eastern Counties bus “hubs” where I used to go with my friend.The first two are pictured at Silver Road Depot, a remnant of the old Norwich Electric Tramways sheds. This was where buses were often delivered brand new before entering service, or more sadly, the last Eastern Counties…
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Eastern Counties Dennis/ECW Integral Buses
In 1938 and 1939, Eastern Counties took delivery of 18 Dennis Aces with ECW B20F bodies and Gardner 4LK engines. Two more unfrozen examples arrived in 1941. In 1947, at a time of acute vehicle shortages, a prototype Beadle chassisless bus appeared in the Eastern Counties fleet. It was one of four Beadle prototypes being…
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Eastern Counties – selected memories May 1965 – December 1969
I was appointed Deputy Assistant Engineer to Eastern Counties Omnibus Company on May 17, 1965 at an annual salary of £1,000 after an interview at Fleet Street, London with the Tilling Senior Training Scheme directors followed by one at Norwich with General Manager Len Balls and Chief Engineer Leo Page. Unfortunately I became ill with…
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Eastern Counties – Bristol VR – NGM 157G – VR 316
Eastern Counties Omnibus Company1969Bristol VR/SL6GECW H43/34F We don’t yet have any pictures of the Bristol VR on OBP, so here is one of the early examples that earned something of a dubious reputation. Sitting in the 1976 spring sunshine at Ely depot is Eastern Counties VR 316, NGM 157G, a VR/SL6G with ECW H43/34F body.…
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Eastern Counties – Bristol SC4LK – VVF 540 – LC540
Eastern Counties Omnibus Company1957Bristol SC4LKECW B35F Before researching the facts about the Bristol SC for this caption, I had somehow presumed that Crosville would have been the largest customer for the type. In fact I was surprised to find that they were only the third largest, having bought a total of 79. 323 were built…
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Eastern Counties – Bristol SC4LK – 3003 AH – LC 556
Eastern Counties Omnibus Company1959Bristol SC4LKECW B35F I have the only fully restored red and cream Bristol SC4LK! It is ex Eastern Counties LC 556 (3003 AH). It was new to ECOC in Jan 1959 and served the company for 11 years. Following withdrawal in 1970, it passed via Ben Jordan, the famous Norfolk bus dealer,…
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Eastern Counties – Bristol K5G – LKH 255 – KNG 255
Eastern Counties Omnibus Company1950Bristol K5GECW H56R This is a picture taken in my teen-age years of one of my favourite K5G’s which used to regularly run the route 92A to my home council estate in Norwich. Taken in Surrey Street garage on 23rd August 1969 it rests for the night.The bus was withdrawn at the…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol GO5G – YG 8986 – 306
Copyright Roy Marshall West Yorkshire Road Car Company1935Bristol GO5GEastern Counties L53R West Yorkshire Bristol GO5G 306 with Eastern Counties L53R body built in 1935 is seen at Bradford Chester Street Bus Station about 1950. It is ready to depart to Baildon via Canal Road and this information is clearly displayed on its “bible” indicator. For…
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Eastern Counties – Bristol MW – KAH 641D – LM641
Eastern Counties Omnibus Company1966Bristol MW5GECW B30D+30 One of two strange versions delivered to ECOC at about the time as the first RESLs were being delivered. Who would put a centre door on an MW with its very high centre section of chassis bearing the engine, instead of waiting a few months for a Bristol RE…
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Eastern Counties – Bristol RESL – KVF 660E – RS660
Eastern Counties Omnibus Co Ltd1967Bristol RESL 6HLXECW B46F There are several non-ECW bodied RE buses featured on this site but few if any of the first Tilling Group RESL standard bus. This is RS660 (KVF 660E), the last of a batch of 14, which I believe was supplied to meet an outstanding order for MWs.…