Tag: English Electric
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English Electric Bus Bodies
The English Electric Company, and its predecessors in the Dick Kerr group, were the largest producers of tramcar bodies in the UK, and had established a sound business platform in the successor business of bus and trolleybus bodies by 1932. In 1932, a standard 6 bay composite double deck body was produced with considerable success,…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Tilling-Stevens E60A6 – RV1147 – 84
Copyright G E Baddeley Portsmouth Corporation 1932 TSM (Tilling-Stevens) E60A6 English Electric H26/24R CPPTD lent seven TSM’s and three Leyland TD1’s to supplement the shortage of LPTB’s vehicles. Parked at the Red Deer pub, Croydon, alongside two Ford Y’s and an Austin 14, Portsmouth Corporation’s TSM (Tilling-Stevens) E60A6 is very much on foreign territory, in…
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Midland Red – SOS SLR – CHA 976 – 1994
Copyright Roger Cox Midland Red (Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co) 1937 SOS SLR English Electric C30C Following on from Paul Haywoods posting of a Midland Red Regent II I thought you may be interested in a picture of one of the types of vehicle produced by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company itself…
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Smiths Luxury Coaches – Leyland Titan TD7 – EDK 648
Photograph taken by Stuart Wyss Smiths Luxury Coaches (Reading) Ltd 1940 Leyland Titan TD7 English Electric H30/26R Once again I am most grateful to Stuart Wyss for this photo. Peter Greave’s recent comment on that handsome Rochdale Regent III and Chris Youhill’s mention of the Leyland 8.6-litre engine prompted me to send this English Electric-bodied…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland Titan – RV 6358/67 – 5/7
Portsmouth Corporation 1935 Leyland Titan TD4 English Electric O26/24R Here are two of the Portsmouth Corporation venerable TD4 open top buses. When delivered in 1935, this batch had English Electric bodies of H26/24 configuration, but four of these were rebuilt as O26/24R in 1953. No.5, RV 6358, formerly No.115, and No.7, RV 6367, previously No.124,…
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Courts of Nuneaton – Daimler COG5 – FOF 269
Copyright Victor Brumby Courts of Nuneaton1939Daimler COG5BRCW H30/24R – 1949 English Electric H28/26R Another fine shot from Victor with the following comment which was hand written underneath the photograph. “FOF 269 – Ex. Birmingham Corporation Daimler highbridge ‘sit-up-and-beg’ body. Birmingham no 1269. Operated by Courts of Nuneaton.JVO 230 – Barton Leyland lowbridge no 507.†Interesting…
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Bradford Corporation – AEC 661T – AAK 422 – 620
R F Mack Bradford Corporation Transport1935AEC 661TEnglish Electric H32/26R We all have our personal favourites as far as buses are concerned, and I have to confess that mine are, (or were), trolleybuses.Amongst my earliest memories were the late war years in Bradford, where I so clearly recall the sight, and sound, of Bradford’s “Regen” trolleybuses.…
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Bradford Corporation – AEC 661T – KY 8210 – 607 & AAK 422 – 620
Copyright J A Pitts Copyright J Copland Bradford Corporation Transport – 1934 – AEC 661T – English Electric H32/26R Bradford Corporation Transport – 1935 – AEC 661T – NCB H30/26R (rebuilt 1949) This photo of Bradford “Regen” 607 was taken in 1944 outside Duckworth Lane depot and shows this trolleybus in dark blue with war…
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Portsmouth Corporation – AEC 661/EE – RV 9148 – 294
Copyright Barry Cox Portsmouth Corporation1937AEC 661T/English ElectricCraven H26/26R Portsmouth Corporation had 115 trolleybuses in its fleet.The first 15 (1934) were a motley collection of chassis/electrical equipment and bodies, four and six wheelers, bought for evaluation.The next nine (1935/36) were, to me, the most handsome of them all, were AEC/EE ones with English Electric bodies. Unable…