Tag: Roe
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Sheffield Corporation – AEC Regal IV – OWB 13 – 13
Sheffield Corporation1952AEC Regal IVRoe B44F Sheffield 13 (originally 213) is passing a splendid array of shop fronts in Haymarket, Sheffield on a midday 29 to Blackburn (in Rotherham – not Lancashire). This was a works service to Shardlows Works midway between Sheffield and Rotherham. A low bridge required the use of single deckers. I cannot…
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Halifax Corporation – AEC Regal III – BCP 544 – 268
Photorapher unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Halifax Corporation Transport and Joint Omnibus Committee1949AEC Regal IIIRoe B33F Now this is one of my favourites I have travelled miles on this bus, we had a bus club trip on this bus but unfortunately I can not remember where we…
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Halifax Corporation – AEC Regal III – AJX 848 – 258
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Halifax Corporation Transport and Joint Omnibus Committee1949AEC Regal IIIRoe B32R A Halifax Regal III bus in coach livery of all over cream with an orange waistband, there was no difference whatsoever that I know of between this Regal and one in…
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Halifax Corporation – AEC Regal III – BCP 544 – 258
Copyright Roger Cox Halifax Corporation Transport and Joint Omnibus Committee1949AEC Regal IIIRoe B32R Halifax buses seemed to undergo a curious renumbering merry go round from time to time, as if fleet numbers were somehow on ration. The number 258 was a case in point. Here is another Regal III of the 1949 batch, BCP 544,…
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Rochdale Corporation Welfare Dept – AEC Regal III – BCP 543 – 900
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…
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Keighley – West Yorkshire – Bristol K5G – CWX 671 – KDG 26
Keighley – West Yorkshire1938Bristol K5GRoe L27/28R Keighley – West Yorkshire was established as a branch of West Yorkshire Road Car in 1930, if we believe the entry on Wikipedia. CWX 671 was new to KWY in 1938 and is a Bristol K5G, but the bodywork is not what one might expect, being by Roe rather…
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Keighley – West Yorkshire – Bristol K – CWX 671 – KDG26
Keighley – West Yorkshire1950Bristol K5GRoe L27/28R This Roe L27/28R Bristol K5G was delivered to Keighley – West Yorkshire (as K383) in April 1950. Over sixty-one years later KDG26 is seen passing through the impressive arch of the Halifax Piece Hall when taking a very active part in the Heart of the Pennines Event in October…