Tag: ECW
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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…
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Wilts & Dorset – Bristol KSW – HMR 59 – 344
Wilts & Dorset Motor Services1952Bristol KSW5GECW L55R Here is a view of HMR 59, a Bristol KSW5G with ECW bodywork. By the time of this view, the 1952 vehicle had been relegated to training duties. She’s seen in the yard of the Hants & Dorset depot in Southampton, in March 1975. By this time, NBC…
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Wilts & Dorset – Bristol KSW – HWV 294 – 365
Wilts & Dorset Motor Services1952Bristol KSW5GECW L27/28R HWV 294 is a Bristol KSW5G dating from 1952 [like the photographer] and has been fully restored by Roger Burdett internally, externally and mechanically. It will be at various rallies in 2014. It has a L27/28R ECW body and was new to Wilts and Dorset as their 365.…
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Hants & Dorset – Bristol KSW – KEL 728 – 1285
Hants & Dorset Motor Services1951Bristol KSW6BECW L27/28R KEL 728 is a Bristol KSW6B new to Hants & Dorset in 1951. The ECW body was of the L55R variety when new. After withdrawal from passenger duty in 1969, it became one of the driver training fleet, with various alterations including the fitting of a sliding door…