Tag: ECW
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London Transport GS Class
This year marks the 60th anniversary of London Transport’s GS class. Perhaps the most surprising thing about the GS was that such a competent and handsome bus should emerge from a specification that on paper looks decidedly iffy. Not to put to fine a point on it, it looks like a real bitsa: bitsa this,…
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Southern Vectis KDL 413
I am hoping to acquire KDL 413, which we have found abandoned in a yard in Denver after 15 years. We hope to re-engine her and get her running and restored into Southern Vectis livery again. Pictures can be seen at this link. Mike Pannell 07/02/13 – 14:19 Brilliant, Mike, and good luck. Have watched…
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Why did the BTC/THC Stick Rigidly to a Bristol/ECW Purchasing Policy
Apologies if this has been asked/answered before.Has anyone ever satisfactorily explained why the BTC/THC (with the exception of some lightweight buses and coaches and vehicles ordered by other operators) stuck rigidly to a Bristol/ECW purchasing policy whereas the Scottish Bus Group dual-sourced from both within and outside the state sector. Was it something to do…
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Bristol SUL
I am new to this site and thought you may be interested in seeing a few shots of the Bristol SUL4A. The much missed Tillingbourne Bus Company. 417 HDV was very smart when first repainted into the Danube blue and light grey livery with a yellow stripe. These two shots were taken in 1972 in…
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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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Cumberland – Leyland Titan – BRM 596 – 291
Cumberland Motor Services 1936 Leyland Titan TD4 ECW L27/28R (1950) Before the advent of the Tilling Group era, and the inevitable Bristol/ECW combination for most vehicles, Cumberland had a large fleet of Leyland chassis, and the Royal Tigers seem to have been the last. BRM 596 is a Leyland Titan TD4 with the chassis dating…
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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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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2/20 – YWB 294 – 1294
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1957Leyland PD2/20ECW H31/28R Sheffield Joint Omnibus Committee took delivery of eight Leyland PD2/20 in 1957 of which five had Eastern Coachworks bodies and the remaining three were bodied by Roe.The purchase of the three B fleet and two C fleet ECW bodied buses was made possible by the connection with the…
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Bristol Omnibus – Leyland PD1/A – LAE 13 – C4044
Bristol Omnibus1947Leyland PD1/AECW H30/26R Chris Youhill has mentioned that Samuel Ledgard bought and ran a few of these vehicles in the early 1960’s, which prompted me to rummage around and find this photo, which I took at the Bristol Bus Rally in 1977. I don’t believe that LAE 13 was a Ledgard vehicle, although LAE…
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Southdown – Leyland Tiger – HCD 449 – 1249
Southdown Motor Services Ltd1947Leyland Tiger PS1/1ECW C31R HCD 449 is a Leyland Tiger PS1/1 with an ECW C31R bodywork (with door!) and dates from 1947, when it joined Southdown. We see it at an open day at the Brijan Tours depot in Curdridge – just outside Botley – on 22 April 2012. These open days…