Tag: Northern Counties
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Burwell and District – Daimler CV – PHP 220
Burwell and District Motor Services1952Daimler CVG6Northern Counties H33/28R Burwell and District was a small company based in the Cambridgeshire village of that name, just to the north west of Newmarket. Like many such operators, it began just after WW1 when Mr Mansfield, a cycle and motor agent in the village, bought a 20 seat Model…
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Lancaster City Transport – Daimler CV – NTF 466 – 466
Lancaster City Transport1952Daimler CVG5Northern Counties B35F NTF 466 is a Daimler CVG5 with Northern Counties B35F body, built for Lancaster City Transport in 1952. There were three of them, but 467 and 468 were withdrawn in 1958. They had B32R bodies [with door!] when new and 466 was converted in the operator’s workshops to forward…
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S H M D – Atkinson PD746 – UMA 370 – 70
Copyright David Beilby Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield1955Atkinson Mk II (6LW)Northern Counties H35/25CD Following on from Roger Broughton’s comments on the S.H.M.D. Daimler CVD6 posting I thought it might be appropriate to post this view of the preserved S.H.M.D. Atkinson double-decker in Stalybridge bus station on 30th April 1978. The location still contains many props…
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Hebble – AEC Regent V – PCP 403 – 277
Hebble Motor Services1962AEC Regent VNorthern Counties H65F These two Regent Vs of Hebble are in Halifax bus station the one on the left is five years older with a Weymann Orion body there is a better colour shot of one of these buses here. I am not sure what the registration is of the one…
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Yorkshire Woollen District – AEC Regent V – FHD 121 – 94
Yorkshire Woollen District1961AEC Regent V 2D3RANorthern Counties H39/31F Yorkshire Woollen was fundamentally a Leyland operator, apart from a few Guy Arabs in the early post war years. The first YWD Regent Vs appeared when ten Metro Cammell H39/31F bodied buses of the LD3RA type were delivered in 1958, to be followed by fifteen more in…
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Douglas Corporation – AEC Regent III RT – GMN 905 – 54
Photo by M Standeven Douglas Corporation1947AEC Regent III RTNorthern Counties H30/25R This is a RT type Regent as its chassis number was O961 186 a provincial Regent III would have a chassis number beginning O9612 000 the 2 stood for series 2. A good way to tell an RT from a Provincial Regent is a…
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Douglas Corporation – AEC Regent III – HMN 690 – 59
Photo by M Standeven Douglas Corporation1947AEC Regent III O961/2Northern Counties H30/26R A nice shot of a very early AEC Regent III taken on the Isle of Man about 1964/5. The Northern Counties bodywork that Douglas Corporation seemed to favour is quite obvious by the front upper deck.An interesting bit of information I came up with…
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PMT – AEC Regent III – REH 524 – H524
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Potteries Motor Traction1952AEC Regent III 9613A Northern Counties H32/26R This is a rather nice looking Northern Counties bodied Regent III the front of the upper deck looks a bit Massey-ish but the flared skirt just adds that little extra touch. PMT had…
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Western SMT – AEC Regent III – BSD 454 – 549
Western SMTAEC Regent III 9612ENorthern Counties L27/26R Western SMT took fifty-eight of these handsome preselector Regent III’s with Northern Counties lowbridge bodies between 1947 and 1950, being registered BSD 401 to 458, Strangely, BSD 441 of 1949 never entered service with them and was immediately sold to the independent York Bros. of Northampton. The rest…
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Douglas Corporation – AEC Regent I – DMN 650 – 50
Photo by M Standeven Douglas Corporation1939AEC Regent INorthern Counties H27/25R The AEC Regent I first appeared at the 1929 Olympia show it was more or less a cut down version of the six wheeled AEC Renown. AEC coded the early Regents chassis 661 has it had a 6 cylinder 6.1 litre petrol engine, it was…