Tag: Potteries Motor Traction
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PMT – Beadle Rochester – 717 AEH – C7717
Potteries Motor Traction1956Beadle RochesterBeadle C41F Taken in the summer of either 1963 or ’64 this photo of Potteries fleet number C7717 registration 717 AEH which was a Beadle Rochester C41F integral coach delivered in 1956, it is seen here about to enter Southdown’s Royal Parade garage where most tour coaches were parked and heavy repairs…
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PMT – AEC Reliance – 693 AEH – SN7693
Copyright Ian Wild Potteries Motor Traction1957AEC Reliance 470Weymann B44F This is one of many AEC Reliance 470 with standard BET style Weymann bodies (B44F) operated by PMT. This particular example dates from 1957 denoted by the 7 prefix to the fleet number. Allocated to Milton Depot at the time, it has come to grief sliding…
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PMT – AEC Reliance – 882 REH – SN882
Copyright Michael Crofts Potteries Motor Traction 1961AEC RelianceAlexander B45F The Reliance in the snow above was being driven by myself on route 64 Newcastle under Lyme to Market Drayton on the A53 road just south of Loggerheads, traffic in front was getting stuck on a hill ahead of us called Hennel Brooke. The AEC’s were delivered…
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PMT – AEC Reliance – KVT 192E – 1092
Potteries Motor Traction1967AEC Reliance 8U2RAlexander C49F A firm favourite of mine was the A.E.C. Alexander Y type, what a difference these buses made to our Excursion and Express allocation. I worked at this time on the P.M.T. based at Newcastle Under Lyme depot none of these vehicles were based there at this time they were…
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P M T – AEC Reliance – 4990 VT – C990
Potteries Motor Traction1964AEC Reliance 2U3RADuple C49F Potteries Motor Traction took delivery of six of these fantastic vehicles in 1964 they had the AEC 590 engine and 6 speed ZF manual gearbox. Drivers and passengers loved them, 4989 VT won the 1964 Brighton coach rally. I have not driven a coach before or since as good…
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PMT – AEC Reliance – WJO 744 – S5626
Potteries Motor Traction1955AEC Reliance MU3RVWillowbrook B45F Nine of these AEC Reliance MU3RV’s with Willowbrook B45F bodies had been ordered by City of Oxford Motor Services for delivery in 1955. Registered in Oxford as WJO 736-744, the last three were instead diverted to PMT which numbered them S5624-5626 and placed them in their Wells Motor Services…
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PMT – AEC Reliance – 761 CVT – C8761
Potteries Motor Traction1958AEC Reliance 470Willowbrook C41F PMT had five of these coaches plus one similar acquisition on a Leyland Tiger Cub chassis from the takeover of Dawsons, Ash Bank. They suffered as always with AH470 engines with cylinder head gasket and wet liner seal failures. This is why this photo was taken adjacent to Llandrindod…
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PMT – AEC Reliance – PVT 103F – SL1103
Potteries Motor Traction1968AEC Reliance 691 8U2RAAlexander DP49F SL1103 is at the Barlaston terminus of services 24/25 having worked the service from Hanley on 3rd May 1970. Barlaston was a pleasant village on the south eastern side of the Stoke conurbation, it’s main fame at that time being the nearby Wedgwood China factory. This was one…
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PMT – AEC Reliance – 4989 VT – C989
Potteries Motor Traction1964AEC Reliance 2U3RADuple C49F Potteries C989 registration 4989 VT was an AEC Reliance 2U3RA with a Duple Commander I body delivered in early 1964. One of it’s early duties was an appearance at that years Brighton coach rally where it won the Coach of the Year trophy with favourable comments from the judges…
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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…