Tag: Ribble Motor Services
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Lower Mosley Street Manchester – Part 1
North Western’s 237 (CDB 237), a 1949 Leyland PD2/1 with Leyland L53R bodywork, is seen awaiting departure for Macclesfield in the middle lane of the western roadway. Behind it is the main building of the bus station, and in the background the enormous train-shed of Central Station. The roof of the shelter for stands 10-17…
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Selected Memories of an Engineer at Ribble
After graduate training at Bristol Commercial Vehicles, I started my career at the frugal but efficient Tilling Group’s Eastern Counties. When the National Bus Company (NBC) was formed, opportunities increased and I moved to Maidstone and District – an ex-BET group company that liked its heritage, invested in lots of new vehicles but nothing in…
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Ribble – Leyland Titan TD7 – RN 8979 – 2323
Ribble Motor Services 1940 Leyland Titan TD7 Leyland L27/26R I cannot now remember where in 1960 I took this rather sad picture of RN 8979, a former Ribble Leyland TD7 with Leyland L27/26R bodywork, or who the operator then was. The old telephone code HIL (for Hillside) covered the Barnt Green area of Birmingham, which…
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Turners of Chorley – Leland Titan TD5 – RN 8642
Turners of Chorley 1939 Leland Titan TD5 (1939) Alexander (1949) L27/26R I went on a bus club trip on this bus to visit the bus depot in Leyland Lancashire of John Fishwick & Sons. Fishwicks were and still are a large independent operator with services in the Leyland, Chorley and Preston area. This bus was…
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Ribble – Leyland Titan – RCK 920 – 1775
Ribble Motor Services1962Leyland Titan PD3/5Metro-Cammell FH41/31F In 1956 the UK maximum legal length for double deck buses was extended to 30 ft, and Leyland quickly responded with the PD3 chassis, essentially an elongated version of the PD2. Ribble ordered a fleet of 105 synchromesh gearbox PD3/4 machines distinguished by handsome Burlingham FH41/31F bodywork featuring a…
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Premier Travel – Leyland Titan PD2 – DCK 212
Copyright John Stringer Premier Travel (Cambridge)1950Leyland Titan PD2/3East Lancs. FL27/26RD Photographed in Drummer Street, Cambridge in 1970, this was one of eleven former Ribble ‘White Lady’ PD2’s, new in 1950 and purchased by Premier Travel in 1962. Around the same time that Ribble were taking delivery of these, Premier Travel had taken into its fleet…
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Ribble – Leyland Titan PD2 – DCK 219 – 1248
Ribble Motor Services1951Leyland Titan PD2/3East Lancs FCL27/22RD This vehicle is easily recognisable as one of Ribble’s famous ‘White Ladies’. She has a Leyland Titan PD2/3 chassis, with East Lancs FCL49RD body. She dates from 1951 and, at the time of this photograph, she was with Quantock. I understand she has now passed to Sir Brian…
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Ideal Service – Leyland Titan – CCK 668 – 16
Copyright Unknown Ideal Service (R Taylor & Sons)1949Leyland Titan PD2/3Brush L27/26R New to Ribble Motor Services (No 2691) in 1949 passed to Delaine, Bourne in 1961 as their (No 54) where it served 5 years when it then passed to R Taylor & Sons Cudworth in February 1966 (No 16) part of the Ideal Service…
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Ribble – Leyland Tiger – FV 5737 – 753
Ribble Motor Services1936Leyland Tiger TS7Duple C31F FV 5737, Leyland Tiger TS7, was new to W C Standerwick of Blackpool in 1936. In the post-war years, she was transferred across to the Ribble fleet and given this Duple C31F body in 1950. In the renumbering system, she became 753. She’s seen at the Winkleigh Open Day…
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Ribble – Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/2 – LCK 712 – 998
Ribble Motor Services1958Leyland Tiger CubBurlingham “Seagull” Mk 3 C41F We are travelling in style today on a rather nice coach or as when I was a young lad I would always say “are we going on a chara” more than likely originates from charabanc. The Yorkshire dialect as a tendency to shorten words and does…