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Tag: Pete Davies

  • Preserved Commercial Vehicles On PSV Chassis

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    Peter and I have been considering in recent months how best to deal with those strange beasts mentioned towards the back of the PSVC list of preserved buses. There is a section, among the miniatures, trams and others, of “Preserved Commercial Vehicles On PSV Chassis”. In the 2012 listing it begins on page 224. It…

  • Mini Gallery One

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    FWL 371E fleet number 371 is an AEC Renown 3B2RA from the City Of Oxford Motor Services. She has a Northern Counties H38/27F bodywork and is seen at the Alton Rally on 20 July 2014. FWC 439H fleet number 1516 is a Bristol RELL6G with the usual ECW B47F bodywork, and dates from December 1969,…

  • Fleetwood Transport Festival (Tram Sunday) 17 July 2016

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    Here are some views taken at the Tram Sunday event in Fleetwood. It seems to be usual that there are many more cars, charity stalls and miscellaneous sales stands than there are trams and buses. There was an outbreak of common sense a few years ago, but the old ways seem to be slipping in…

  • King Alfred 2017

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    PPM 210G is a Bristol RESL6G, new to Brighton Hove & District. At the formation of NBC, fleets were ‘rationalised’, to use a polite term. BH&D was merged into Southdown, and PPM is seen in Southdown livery, with blinds set for a Portsmouth area service HDL 25E is another Bristol RESL6G, new to Southern Vectis.…

  • North West Independents – Book Review

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    One of the recent titles from Venture Publications is Neville Mercer’s review of Independent Bus Operators in North West England, number 31 in the Super Prestige series. Although I have been based in Hampshire for over 40 years, my roots are in the North West, Bolton and Lancaster to be precise, so I had to…