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  • Halifax Passenger Transport in the Mid-1960’s – Part Four

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    Not read this article from the beginning, click here 262 (PXO 974) AEC Reliance MU3RV / Park Royal ‘Royalist’ C41C, new to Timpson’s, London E6. Following the success of the previous year’s used coach purchase and with the Countryside Tour and Private Hire side doing well, a further five secondhand vehicles followed suit in 1966.…

  • Halifax Passenger Transport in the Mid-1960’s – Part Three

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    Not read this article from the beginning, click here 423 (LUA 423) AEC Regent III 9612E / Roe H31/25R, new to Leeds City Transport (423) 1947. (Photo – John Stringer) There was a severe delay in the delivery of more PD2’s intended for 1964/65, due to a protracted labour dispute at Weymann’s. Some vehicles that…

  • Halifax Passenger Transport in the Mid-1960’s – Part Two

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    Not read this article from the beginning, click here 4 (KCP 4) Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster RT3/1 / Weymann B43F, new 1958. (Photo – John Stringer) One-man-operation was brought in on a more serious scale in 1958 when the Siddal, Norton Tower and Washer Lane routes were converted. To provide for this nine new single…

  • Halifax Passenger Transport in the Mid-1960’s – Part One

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    In late 1964 following a spell with London Transport, southern-born Roger Cox took up the position of Traffic Clerk with Halifax Passenger Transport – the combined name for the Halifax Corporation and Halifax Joint Omnibus Committee operations – and spent two years there before returning south to progress his career in the industry. A permanent…