Tag: Hebble
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Hebble Motor Services Ltd. Halifax Depot
After the last few galleries regarding bus stations I thought you maybe interested something on the same lines although this time it is a bus depot. This picture is of the Halifax Depot (from Walnut Street end) of Hebble Motor Services Ltd. These premises were purchased in 1927 to house the expanding fleet. The picture…
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Hebble – Leyland PSU1/16 – ECP 500 – 74
Hebble Motor Services1954Leyland PSU1/15Bellhouse-Hartwell C37C This amazing creation was photographed at the Rotherham rally in August 1976. I wonder what has happened to it since. There are photos on flickr showing it undergoing heavy restoration but no further details. It would be great to see it out and about again. Makes you wonder how it…
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Hebble – Daimler Fleetline – DJX 351D – 351
Copyright Ian Wild Hebble Motor Services1966Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXNorthern Counties H43/31F This was the only new rear engined double decker purchased by Hebble and originally numbered 351 in their feet. In 1970 it was renumbered 625 but in 1971 it passed to Halifax JOC as their 294 when they bought out the Hebble Stage Services. It…
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Hebble – AEC Reliance – GCP 8 – 179
Photo by unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Hebble Motor Services1956AEC Reliance MU3RVWillowbrook B44F I can recognize that this photo was taken outside the Hebble depot at Walnut Street in the depths of the terrace streets of north Halifax. They also had a depot in Bradford at Park…
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Hebble – AEC Reliance – BJX 134C – 134
Hebble Motor Services1965AEC Reliance 2MU4RAPark Royal DP39F Photographed late on a summer day in 1966 at Stump Cross, a location very well known to our regular contributor and esteemed authority on Halifax matters, John Stringer, is AEC Reliance BJX 134C, No.134 in the fleet of Hebble Motor Services. The bodywork is by Park Royal, seated…
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Hebble – AEC Regent V – GJX 847 – 303 – (1)
Hebble Motor Services 1957AEC Regent V D3RV Weymann Orion H33/28R If you read the copy that was with the photo of the West Yorkshire Bristol KSW6B fleet no DBW 20 (link here) I said that the photo was taken from the top deck of an Hebble Regent V well this is the Regent V.Hebble used to paint…
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Hebble – AEC Regent V – PCP 403 – 277
Hebble Motor Services1962AEC Regent VNorthern Counties H65F These two Regent Vs of Hebble are in Halifax bus station the one on the left is five years older with a Weymann Orion body there is a better colour shot of one of these buses here. I am not sure what the registration is of the one…
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Hebble – AEC Regent V – GJX 847 – 303 – (2)
Hebble Motor Services1957AEC Regent V D3RVWeymann H33/28R Due to a height restriction at their garage in Walnut Street, Halifax, Hebble had always purchased lowbridge double deckers, and their first two Regent V’s (75/76, GCP 4/5) of 1956 carried lowbridge Weymann Orion bodies. However, by early 1957 the northern end of the garage had been modified…
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Hebble – AEC Regent III – CJX 69 – 268
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Hebble Motor Services1952AEC Regent IIIWillowbrook L55R This is one of the last batch of Regent IIIs Hebble took delivery of, to say it was new in 1952 it looks as if it was built well before that. I think it is…
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Hebble – AEC Regent III – BJX 57 – 246
Photograph taken by Robert Mack in 1956 copyright held by Don Akrigg Hebble Motor Services1950AEC Regent III 9612ERoe L27/26R This a shot of a Roe lowbridge bodied Regent III owned by Hebble there as been a shot of one of their Willowbrook lowbridge bodied Regents on site before – search for “Hebble” in the “Find”…