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  • Buses and coaches in Sale – Part 2

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    Not read from the beginning click here Part Two – North Western In 1923 British Automobile Traction, the motor bus subsidiary of BET, restructured its “branch” in Cheshire and northern Derbyshire as a subsidiary known as the North Western Road Car Company. At that time the new company had major bases in Macclesfield and Stockport…

  • Buses and coaches in Sale – Part 1

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    Not read from the beginning click here Part One – Manchester Corporation Sale is divided into two equal halves by the A56 trunk road which runs along a north north east to south south west axis through the centre of the town. Three main east-west routes cross the A56. The southernmost of these (Harboro Road…

  • Buses and Coaches in Sale

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    Introduction Until the age of nine I lived in a small village near Northwich in the middle of Cheshire. One of the delights of these younger years was the monthly family shopping trip to Manchester, usually on a Saturday, which involved a long journey on North Western’s route 36. By the early 1960s the vehicles…

  • Huntingdon Street Bus Station – Part Three

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    Not seen the beginning of this article click here. My arrivals at Huntingdon Street between 1964 and 1969 were always by means of the North Western/Trent X2 from Manchester. Ribble vehicles could also be found on this service, as some journeys continued through Manchester to Blackpool, relabelled as X60s. As Robin Hood Coaches (pre 1961)…

  • Huntingdon Street Bus Station – Part Two

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    Not seen the beginning of this article click here. At the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Nottingham’s Central Bus Station was in much the same condition as when it was built ten years earlier. There were still no shelters or seating on the eight platforms, and the only undercover accommodation for…

  • Huntingdon Street Bus Station – Part One

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    At the age of 11, like most healthy children, I started lying to my parents. I was allowed the freedom to travel to Manchester Airport (for the planes) or the city centre (for the buses), but any travels further afield had to be negotiated and in all cases I had to be home by 6pm.…

  • Vegas, Super Vegas, and Vega Lookalikes – Part Two

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    Duple Bodywork on Bedford SB chassis 1950-1962 FS56 VEGA/SUPER VEGA The FS46 Vega had retained most of the styling of the original FS32 range albeit with slightly revised corner glazing at the front end. In October 1953 Duple did a more thorough re-design and came up with the FS56. The “Big Bedford” radiator cowling disappeared…

  • Vegas, Super Vegas, and Vega Lookalikes – Part One

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    Duple Bodywork on Bedford SB chassis 1950-1962 The work of the PSV Circle in maintaining fleet records for operators throughout the UK (and beyond) has been little less than magnificent, and most authors (myself included) owe the organisation a tremendous debt. However, being English, that doesn’t prevent me from having one small gripe amid the…