Tag: Reading
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Guernsey Motors/Railways Fleet Number 77
A 1958 Albion Victor FT39KAN with a Reading FB35F body Registration 8226 – YFO 127 Guernsey fleet number 77, an Albion Victor followed a string of Albion’s supplied to Guernsey Motors and Guernsey Railway. Designed externally to look like coaches they are in fact buses, Licensed to carry 35 seated passengers and 7 standing, 27ft…
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Jersey Motor Transport – Leyland Titan PD2 – 780 JGY – 27
Jersey Motor Transport1959Leyland Titan PD2/31Reading H31/28R 780 JGY is a Leyland Titan PD2/31 with H59R body by Readings of Portsmouth. She was new in 1959, as J 8588, for the Jersey Motor Transport fleet and carries the usual advert for Mary Ann.Is my eyesight playing tricks again or does the bodywork look a bit “Park…
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Formby Coach Company – Karrier – MDU 74
Copyright Alan Murray-Rust Formby Coach Company1953KarrierReading C14F After the demise of the W-type trolleybus, the Karrier name remained dormant until the Rootes Group revived it for this compact little 14-seater coach. It was clearly based on Commer units, and according to John Gillham’s ‘Buses and Coaches 1945-1965’ used a 4-cylinder petrol engine. It appears to…
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Leicester City Council – Karrier Q25 – PBC 734
Leicester City Council1956Karrier Q25Readings C14F PBC 734 was new to Leicester City Council in 1956. It is a Karrier Q25 with Readings C14F body. If the note in the PSVC listing for 2012 is correct, it did not join the Transport Department, so was it some form of welfare vehicle or school bus? It’s 15…
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Safeway Coaches – Dennis Lancet – ASV 900
Copyright all shots Ken Jones Safeway Coaches1949Dennis Lancet IIIReading C33F It’s not often that you find a vehicle built in 1949 which until recently has had only one owner. This Dennis Lancet 33 seat coach was acquired new by Safeway Services of South Petherton in Somerset, which was owned and operated by the Gunn family.…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Crossley DD42/5 – EBK 28 – 28
Photo reproduced with kind permission of Alan Lambert. Copyright Reading & Co Portsmouth Corporation 1949Crossley DD42/5Reading H52R Portsmouth had four Crossley DD42/5’s (11-14) delivered in 1948 and two (15 & 28) in 1949. The first four had German Imperial Navy-type crosses on the radiators: the last two had CROSSLEY plates on them. They all had…
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Guernsey Railways – Albion Nimbus – 14626 – 72
Copyright Pete Davies Guernsey Railways Co Ltd1964Albion Nimbus NS3ANReading B35F Here is a view of an Albion Nimbus, registration 14626. She is in the green and cream livery of the Guernsey Railways fleet and has a Reading body, with fleet number 72. The Guernsey Motors vehicles were a dark red (quite near the Northern General…
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Provincial – AEC Regent II – FHO 602 – 10
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Provincial (Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Co)1947AEC Regent IIReading H56R The AEC Regent II was only in production for three years 1945 – 48 and just under 700 were made but at the time just after the war they were much in…
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Provincial – AEC Regal I – GOU 449 – 66
Copyright Stan Fitton. Provincial (Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Co)1931AEC Regal IReading FB35F The Regent in the above shot was on the Crossley Omnibus Society Grand Southern tour and here it can be seen at the Provincial bus depot parked next to their number 66. Provincial had a tendency to get their monies worth out of…
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Provincial – AEC Regal I/Regent I – EHO 282 – 15
Provincial (Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Co)1943AEC Regal I/Regent IReading H??/??R Doubt exists about the vehicle chassis type, but here is the story as of now.In 1943, Mr Orme-White carried out his first (of many) vehicle re-constructions, involving an AEC Regal I (although recent research suggests it was a Regent I chassis), purchased from the War…