Old bus photos

Tag: Nottingham City Transport

  • Nottingham Trolleybuses – The Last Years

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    The life and times of the Nottingham trolleybus system have been well documented and photographed over the years and my contribution is as an interested observer in the mid-sixties. My earliest involvement with these vehicles was from familiarity in the early 50s, when my grandparents lived in Ingram Rd, Bulwell, their house backed on to…

  • Visiting Grandad

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    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…

  • Goose Fair

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    It is easy to forget how heavily we relied on buses during the 1950s when car ownership was so much lower than it is today. Any major function was an occasion to run a special bus service. Many cities’ blinds featured such exotic destinations as “Football Ground” and “Races” as well as the more general…

  • Nottingham City Transport – Daimler Fleetline – 62 NAU – 62

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    Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Nottingham City Transport1962Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXPark Royal H77F October 2012 saw the 50th anniversary of the introduction of rear engined buses by Nottingham City Transport. The subject of the image is a Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX, fleet number 62, registration number 62 NAU.…

  • Nottingham City Transport – Daimler CWA6 – DKY 496 – 47

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    Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Nottingham City transport1945Daimler CWA6Duple UL27/28R Some months ago, June 2011 to be precise, there was a question on the Q&As page from Stephen Ford about the ex Bradford lowbridge utilities acquired by Nottingham Corporation Transport for the then new Clifton Estate…

  • Nottingham City Transport – AEC Regent III – KTV 335 – 335

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    Nottingham City Transport1949AEC Regent IIIRoberts H56R This is an AEC Regent III of Nottingham City Transport, body by Charles Roberts of Wakefield. The location is Nottingham Old Market Square. This series were purchased (I think) about 1948/9 and ran until the mid/late 1960s. (Latterly they were renumbered into the 400 series I believe). As built…

  • Nottingham City Transport – AEC Regent III – SAU 203 -203

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    Copyright Bob Gell Nottingham City Transport1954AEC Regent III 9613SPark Royal L27/26R After Nottingham City Transport had obtained the ex Bradford lowbridge Daimlers to start the services to the then newly developing Clifton Estate, an existing order for Park Royal bodied AEC Regent IIIs was amended, and 10 were delivered in April and June 1954 with…