Tag: Northern General
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Photos of my father with Northern General
Some bus photographs of my father and vehicles he drove. He worked for Northern General from1929 until 1973, prior to this he and my uncle had their own bus business in Hetton. Sunderland Fawcett Street about 1930 with a Midland SOS and a Tramcarin the background My father with his conductor in front of a…
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Northern General Transport Percy Main Depot – Part Three
Not read Part Two click here A handful of Percy Main’s service vehicles carried the Wakefields name, and we’ve seen a couple of examples, but we turn now to the other side of their operations, they also had a superb fleet of coaches. I don’t think it ever exceeded twenty in number, but they were…
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Northern General Transport Percy Main Depot – Part Two
Not read Part One click here The layout of the lights on this Weymann bodied AEC Regent suggests that it could be from 1940, but the registration indicates post war. Percy Main had six, FT 5222/7 – 112/7, and they set the trend for many of the post war vehicles. This 1946, Guy Arab was…
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Northern General Transport Percy Main Depot – Part One
The story of The Northern General Transport Company Ltd starts in 1913, but the history of some of its subsidiaries goes back even further. Two of them were Tynemouth and District Transport Co and Wakefields Motors Limited; this is a brief and by no means complete history of those two. It would take far too…
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Wakefields Motors – Leyland Titan PD3 – AFT 935 – 235
Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Wakefields Motors LtdLeyland Titan PD3/41958Metro-Cammell ‘Orion’ H41/32R This 1958 Metro-Cammell Orion bodied Leyland PD3/4 was one of 12 in the Tynemouth and Wakefields fleet. They were AFT 924/35 fleet numbers 224/35; the last two carried the Wakefields name. The Northern General…
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Northern General – Leyland Titan PD2/3 – CCN 139 – 2080
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. The Northern General Transport Company1951Leyland Titan PD2/3Leyland H33/26R This is a photo of a very typical all Leyland Titan of the period the only thing that would be different to a thousand other all Leyland Titans would be the layout of…
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Northern General – Leyland Titan – VUP 761 – 1761
Northern General Transport1957Leyland Titan PD2/12Park Royal H35/28RD Pictured outside Consett Depot, VUP 761 is a Park Royal bodied H35/28RD Leyland PD2/12, it was the first in a batch of ten delivered in 1957 – VUP 761/70; We have seen Northern General Transport vehicles with the open platform version of this type of Park Royal body…
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Northern General – Leyland Leopard PSU3/3 – CCN 718D – 2518
The Northern General Transport Company1966Leyland Leopard PSU3/3RMarshall DP49F Photo taken at Wellington Street bus station Leeds. The X97 route was Liverpool to Newcastle via Leeds obviously.Information for this photo was found on the “Bus Lists on the Web” website a very good site indeed can be seen here. 05/01/12 – 07:24 I think that the…
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Samuel Ledgard – Guy LUF – DCN 838
All three shots from the Stephen Howarth collection Samuel Ledgard1954Guy Arab LUFPicktree C35F DCN 838 was new to Samuel Ledgard in 1963, it was one of 35 second hand vehicles added to the fleet in an attempt at some sort of standardisation, in order to reduce stocking a wide range of spare parts.It was new…
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Samuel Ledgard – Guy Arab LUF – DCN 834
Copyright John Boylett Samuel Ledgard1954Guy Arab LUFPicktree C35F DCN 834 was a Guy Arab LUF (chassis number 72143) with a Gardner 6HLW engine, bodied with a Picktree Continental C35F body.Picktree were based at Bensham in Gateshead, near the Northern General headquarters, who had a financial stake in Picktree, these coaches being the last PSVs built…