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Tag: Rochdale Corporation

  • Rochdale Regent Vs

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    Lancashire in the fifties and sixties. All that variety! Well, that is perhaps what most enthusiasts will think, but as one who was there at the time, I can tell you that it was merely a variety of Leyland Titans. Of the 27 pre-1968 municipal bus fleets in Lancashire, all but one operated PD-series Titans,…

  • Smiths Luxury Coaches – Leyland Titan TD7 – EDK 648

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    Photograph taken by Stuart Wyss Smiths Luxury Coaches (Reading) Ltd 1940 Leyland Titan TD7 English Electric H30/26R Once again I am most grateful to Stuart Wyss for this photo. Peter Greave’s recent comment on that handsome Rochdale Regent III and Chris Youhill’s mention of the Leyland 8.6-litre engine prompted me to send this English Electric-bodied…

  • Rochdale Corporation – AEC Swift – MDK 735G – 35

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    Rochdale Corporation1969AEC Swift MP2RSeddon B46F My Thanks to Ian Beswick for contributing the above excellent shot of this Rochdale Corporation AEC Swift with its Seddon body who also supplied bus bodies under the name of Pennine.The Swift was AECs move into the rear engined single decker market. It first appeared at the 1964 commercial motor…

  • Rochdale Corporation – AEC Reliance – GDK 324D – 24

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    Rochdale Corporation1966AEC Reliance 6MU2RAWillowbrook B45F Rochdale were always a good customer for AEC vehicles especially single deckers all from 1940 were AEC. Front engined Regals to start with to rear engined Swifts with the very dependable underfloor Reliance in between, the above does look quite smart with its Willowbrook body. I do like the roof…

  • Rochdale Corporation – AEC Regent III – GDK 718 – 218

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    Rochdale Corporation1949AEC Regent IIIWeymann H33/26R Memories of the No. 17 from Manchester Cannon Street to Rochdale in the 50’s Mullion Not strictly true, not the original colour scheme of the time. Good photo though! Ian Buckley One of the early Rochdale Regent IIIs turned over at the junction of Broadway and Middleton Road, Chadderton on…

  • Rochdale Corporation Welfare Dept – AEC Regal III – BCP 543 – 900

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    Rochdale Corporation Welfare Dept.1949AEC Regal III 9621ERoe B33F BCP 543 was originally one of twenty-two AEC Regal III 9621E’s with Roe B32R bodies delivered to the Halifax Corporation and JOC fleets in 1949, and was numbered 268. Fourteen of them, including 268, were rebuilt at Skircoat Road workshops during 1953/54 to B33F layout and with…