Tag: Manchester Corporation
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Manchester’s Upright Profile MCW Orion Bodies
Something has puzzled me for decades and perhaps someone on here can provide a definitive answer.As is well known, MCTD’s Albert Neal had no time for the original Orion body and the first batch of the so called upgraded bodies delivered in 1955/6 did not exactly impress. For almost 2 years the department worked with…
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95/96 Didsbury to Whitefield Bus Routes
Can anyone tell me when these 2 bus routes first started to run to Whitefield as a friend of mine insists that these did not run in the 1950,s as these routes had the service of numbers 24/17 to Salford. Barry Waters 03/03/14 – 11:29 The new cross town 95 and 96 joint service between…
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Manchester Lowbridge Bus
I have a photo which includes a lowbridge Manchester Corporation bus – dated to early 1941. It’s only the rear and I wondered if anyone is expert enough to know the make of vehicle/body and number range of these. it looks to be in the 1XX range, but it’s not really clear. It’s hard to…
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Fog!
There can be few sights more incongruous than that of a half-century-old bright red Manchester Corporation Leyland PD2 making its way through lush, green Derbyshire countryside on a warm sunny day with the word FOG displayed in huge letters on its via blind. But that was one of the attractions of the June 2009 Chatsworth…
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To School by Bus – Part Four
Not read Part Three Click here I mentioned that the daytime schedule on the #31 was not enhanced at rush periods and there was a good reason for this – the #31A. The #31 ran from Manchester, by 1958 using the Chorlton St terminus, to the Cheshire village of Bramhall and was exclusively MCTD. Never…
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To School by Bus – Part Three
Not read Part Two Click here The alternative route to school in 1958 was through Didsbury and Withington, along Wilmslow Rd. As with the route along Kingsway there were two services available but they were of an altogether different nature to the #29 and #40. The Manchester #1 was a limited stop service between Gatley…
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To School by Bus – Part Two
Not read Part One Click here In September 1958 the Manchester Corporation #40 from Parrs Wood to Albert Sq was entrusted to the Northern Counties bodied 1953/54 batch of Leyland PD2s (3300-3329) all of which were delivered to Parrs Wood where most stayed for the next 15 or so years until withdrawn – apart from…
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To School by Bus – Part One
54 years ago few children were driven to school by their parents and most of those who, at ten or eleven, passed the Eleven Plus exam and went on to grammar school (and not a few who didn’t and went to secondary or technical school) found themselves travelling by bus using normal services, often changing…
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From Heaton Moor to Ashton under Lyne 1956
In early 1955 my father started work as a rep for a London based electronics components company, covering the whole of the UK and Ireland except the Home Counties – though visits to London were frequent. During school holidays I used to travel the country with him and was able to see a much wider…
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Manchester Buses – A Retrospective – Part Two
Not seen the start of this article Click Here One of the problems of driving a large vehicle in a city is having to constantly change gear. Add frequent stops for passengers, having to steer eight tons without powered steering when sitting next to a hot and noisy diesel engine, not to mention having to…