Tag: ECW
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Crosville – Bristol LL6B – NFM 46 – SLB 290
Copyright David Humphrey Crosville Motor Services1952Bristol LL6BECW B39RD Here is a photo of SLB 290, Crosville’s last half-cab single decker. It is a 1952 Bristol LL6B with B39RD bodywork. It is pictured at central works, Chester in the summer of 1970 shortly after its withdrawal from service.It was latterly allocated to Chester depot, spending its…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol L5G – CWT 869 – 128
Copyright S N J White West Yorkshire Road Car Company1938Bristol L5GECW B32F This bus is one of the final Bristol L5G pre-war single deckers in the series 110 to 205 which could be seen all over the operating territory of the West Yorkshire Road Car Company. It has a “bible indicator” with a minimum size…
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Wilts & Dorset – Bristol LWL5G – LAM 107 – 557
Copyright Pete Davies Wilts & Dorset Motor Services1954Bristol LWL5GECW FB39F LAM 107 was built for Wilts & Dorset in 1954. By the time I photographed her, on a dull Sunday afternoon in March, 1976, she had been relegated to the role of staff transport for Husband’s Shipyard, of Marchwood. The village is opposite Southampton’s Western…
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Bristol Tramways – Bristol L6B – NAE 3 – 2467
Bristol Tramways1950Bristol L6BECW C31F Whilst there are plenty of Bristols on the site, I don’t think I’ve seen this one represented so far. This exposed-rad Bristol L6B was shot at the Bristol Waterfront Running Day in 2011. New to Bristol Tramways in 1950, so sixty-one years old in this picture and looking well! Photograph and…
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Crosville – Bristol LWL – LFM 810 – KW 229
Crosville Motor Services1951Bristol LWL6BECW B39R Quite a number of Crosville’s L-types have survived in preservation, and this year two of them have changed ownership after many years in the same homes. This example is KW 229, later numbered SLB 229, registration LFM 810. This superb vehicle was owned by the late John Prince for forty…
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Bristol Tramways – Bristol L – NHY 947 – 2815
Bristol Tramways & Carriage Company Limited1951Bristol LWL6BECW FC35F NHY 947 is an ECW ‘Queen Mary’ coach body with the sort of chassis one might expect underneath – not the AEC Regal rebuild in Tilling livery submitted a while ago! This Bristol LWL6B was new in 1951, with ECW FC35F body. We see it on Southampton…
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Western National – Bristol L – JUO 943 – 1211
Western National Omnibus Co Ltd1948Bristol L6BBeadle C31F – ECW FB39F (1958) A 1948 Bristol L6B, when it was delivered to Western National it had a Beadle C31F body. Ten years later it was lengthened to a LL standard and rebodied by Eastern Coachworks to this FB39F style, I presume both happened at the same time.We…
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Nadder Valley Coaches – Bristol L5G – EDL 16
Nadder Valley Coaches1946Bristol L5GECW B31F In 1946 Southern Vectis added the first three post war examples of the Bristol L5G to its pre war and wartime fleet of the model. EDL 14 -16 arrived with Eastern Coach Works B35R bodywork, but, in 1961, all three were rebuilt with ECW B31F bodies for (what was then…
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Hants & Dorset – Bristol LL5G – KRU 993 – 787
Hants & Dorset Motor Services1952Bristol LL5GECW FC37F KRU 993 came to Hants & Dorset in February 1952 as a standard half cab LL6B with an ECW B39R body, one of a batch of seven similar vehicles, KRU 988-994, fleet nos. 782-788, delivered between September 1951 and February 1952. In June 1955 the Bristol AVW engine…
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United Automobile – Bristol KSW6B – PHN 809 – BH27
Copyright John Stringer United Automobile Services1952Bristol KSW6BECW H32/28R Following all the recent enthusiastic comment regarding the Western National KS5G photo, I thought I would submit this, taken from a recently rediscovered early slide of mine.United’s BH27 (originally BBH27), PHN 809, a KSW6B, is seen operating the 109 Seafront Service around North Marine Drive in Scarborough…