Tag: Midland General
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Midland General AEC Regent II/Weymann
Until I was about 5 we lived in Nottingham. At that time (the early 1950s) Nottingham City Transport was dominated by pre-selector AEC Regents (including quite a lot of pre-war ones). These were fine in their way – but the transmission music of a pre-selector was quite different from the Mark II crash gearbox. We…
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Visiting Grandad
When I was about 4 my grandparents moved from the Nottingham suburb of Mapperley to Hucknall – now the northern terminus of the Nottingham tram system, but then way outside the precincts of Nottingham City Transport. Hucknall was a mining “village” and my grandmother always referred to it disparagingly as “Mucky ’Uckna’ ”. From our…
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Midland General – AEC Regent III – MRB 30 – 28
Midland General Omnibus Company1948AEC Regent IIIWeymann H30/26R From what I can make out there was the Midland General Group which included Midland General obviously, Mansfield & District and Notts & Derby. One thing I find strange is that they purchased Bristol manufactured buses I thought that after 1948 only nationalised bus operators could do that.…
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British Rail – AEC Regal III – KRR 261
Copyright Ian Wild British Rail1949AEC Regal IIIWeymann B35F British Rail ran a staff bus between Sheffield Midland Station and Tinsley Marshalling Yard and at various times used this ex Mansfield District bus (fleet number 15), similar KRR 264 and KRB 88 which was an ex Midland General Leyland PS1 with a similar body. All ran…
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Midland General – AEC Regal III – KRR 255 – 175
Midland General Omnibus Company1949AEC Regal III 9621EWeymann DP35F A classic combination of AEC Regal III and Weymann body.Chassis number 9621E481 was combined with a 35-seat front-entrance Weymann body, M4122, and appropriate seating to allow dual-purpose use.Worthy of note is the ‘MGO’ badge replacing the more usual AEC triangle and also the additional chrome-work of which…
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United Automobile – Bristol Lodekka – DHN 379C – L179
United Automobile Services1965Bristol Lodekka FLF6BECW H38/32F The last time I posted one of my own photographs on site was the 14th of November 2010 which is three and a half years ago, now that was a very good run I think, thank you to all the contributors for keeping the site going. So as it…
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West Riding – Bristol Lodekka – XNU 428 – 405
West Riding Automobile1955Bristol Lodekka LD6GECW H33/25RD Around 1958, the Chief Engineer of West Riding, Ron Brooke, entered into collaboration with Guy, who then had an impeccable reputation for sound, robust engineering, in the design of a maximum capacity front entrance, low floor double decker, similar in concept to the then very new Leyland Atlantean, but…
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Midland General – Bristol Lodekka – 972 ARA – 453
Midland General Omnibus Company1956Bristol Lodekka LD6GECW H33/25RD Photographed in Nottingham in August 1961 is Midland General 453, 972 ARA, a Bristol LD6G Lodekka with ECW H33/25RD bodywork, delivered to the operator in October 1956. This vehicle, together with other buses from across the NBC, went to West Riding in April 1970 to expedite the withdrawal…