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Tag: Metro-Cammell

  • Wallasey Corporation – Leyland Atlantean – FHF 451 – 1

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    Wallasey Corporation Transport1958Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Metro-Cammell H44/33F Cheshire’s seaside resort is New Brighton, part of Wallasey. Wallasey is credited in some sources as having the first Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 in public service, and here is: FHF 451. It dates from 1958 and has a Metropolitan Cammell H77F body. A legend surrounds the peculiar colour. Many of…

  • Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland Atlantean – 224 BTP – 224

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    Portsmouth Corporation1963Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Metro Cammell H43/33F The production Atlantean appeared in 1958, but the early examples proved troublesome and expensive to maintain. Nevertheless, the concept appealed to several operators, and, by 1963, Portsmouth Corporation, long time devotees of the Leyland marque, must have thought the risk to be worthwhile, for it bought a batch of…

  • Newcastle Corporation – Karrier E6A – BVK 810 – 20

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    Courtesy of Newcastle City libraries archives. Newcastle Corporation1935Karrier E6AMetro-Cammell H33/27D The last Tyneside and Tynemouth and District trams ran in 1930 and 31 respectively, they were replaced by motor buses, but Newcastle Corporation decided on trolleybus as tram replacements. The Tyneside and T&D tram networks were small in comparison, so the change came very quickly;…

  • Birmingham City – Daimler Fleetline – BON 541C – 3541

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    Birmingham City Transport1965Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXMCCW H39/33F BON 541C is a Daimler Fleetline CRG6 with Metropolitan Cammell body, new to Birmingham City Transport in 1965, with fleet number 3541. On the formation of West Midlands PTE, all she had was a change of lettering in what some of the neighbouring authorities considered to be a take-over…

  • Manchester Corporation – Daimler CVG6 – NNB 231 – 4421

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    Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Manchester Corporation1954Daimler CVG6Metro Cammell H32/28R In 1965 Manchester had 398 Daimler CVs all rear entrance. Out of the 398 158 of them had the 7·0 litre 5 cylinder Gardner 5LW diesel engine the rest having the more powerful 8·4 litres, six…

  • Salford City Transport – Daimler CVG6 – CRJ 417 – 417

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    Copyright Peter Williamson Salford City Transport1950Daimler CVG6Metro-Cammell H28/26R Between 1950 and 1952 Salford City Transport placed in service 195 Daimler CVG6 double deckers with Metro-Cammell Phoenix bodies, all featuring Birmingham-style straight staircases and traditional polished wood interior window frames. Apart from another 15 CVG6s with Burlingham bodies purchased at the same time (a mixture of…

  • West Bromwich – Daimler CVG5 – FEA 156 – 156

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    West Bromwich (County Borough of) Transport Dept1952Daimler CVG5Metro-Cammell B38R To return to West Bromwich, near contemporaries of the GEA registered Daimler double deckers, a pair of which were posted on site a week or so ago, were a batch of single deckers. The chassis were built in 1948, but due to pressure of work at…

  • SELNEC PTE – Daimler CVG6 – TRJ 128 – 4017

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    SELNEC PTE1962Daimler CVG6Metro-Cammell H37/28R (Orion) During the Selnec era, quite a number of ex-Salford buses were transferred to the former Manchester Corporation Depot at Queens Road. Most of these were Leyland Atlanteans and PD2’s, which would be quite at home among the ex-Manchester Leylands based here, although I wondered what the Queens Road crews made…

  • Manchester Corporation – Daimler CVG6 – NNB 222 – 4412

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    Manchester Corporation1953Daimler CVG6Metro Cammell H32/28R During the 1950s, Manchester Corporation mainly sourced its double deck fleet from Leyland, the shorter PD2 chassis being preferred, and from Daimler, mostly the CVG6 version, but some CVG5s were also taken. The picture, taken in June 1970 after the formation of the SELNEC PTE in November 1969, shows Daimler…

  • Birmingham City Transport – Daimler COG – CVP 207 – 1107

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    Birmingham City Transport1937Daimler COG5Metro-Cammell H30/24R Between 1934 and 1939 Birmingham Corporation Transport, which adopted the name Birmingham City Transport from 1937, took some 800 examples of the Daimler COG5 model, which, despite its modest five cylinder Gardner power unit, was a sophisticated performer with an effective flexible engine mounting and a fluid flywheel/epicyclic gearbox transmission.…