Old bus photos

Tag: Seddon

  • Oldham Corporation – Seddon MK17 L – 203 FBU

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    Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Oldham Corporation 1963 Seddon MK17L Seddon B36F Another shot from the ‘Do You Know’ page and it appears this is not strictly a PSV, but as Peter Williamson, Stephen Howarth and Les Ronan made the effort to solve the mystery I…

  • Lancaster City Transport – Seddon RU – TBU 598G – 598

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      Lancaster City Transport 1969 Seddon RU Pennine B??F Much has been written, on this website and elsewhere, about the Seddon Pennine. Most of such text is not complimentary. Southampton City Transport had several, with bids for their Gardner engines being far higher than bids for the complete vehicle when they were withdrawn. TBU 598G…

  • Demonstrator – Seddon Pennine IV – RBU 502F

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    Demonstrator 1968 Seddon Pennine IV Pennine B45F Something to give Roger Cox the shudders ! In late 1968 Halifax Corporation borrowed the prototype Seddon Pennine IV demonstrator, though I wonder if the intention was simply to give the manufacturer some operational experience of their new model. Surely manager Geoff Hilditch could never have been serious…

  • Popular Coaches – Seddon Mk 4 – DPR 518

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    H. A. Vincent (Popular Coaches) Thorncombe Dorset 1949 Seddon Mk 4 Santus C30F DPR 518 is a Seddon Mk 4 with a Santus (the Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball family of Wigan) bodywork to a C30F format. It was new to H. A. Vincent in 1949 and is seen in the depot yard at Mallard Road,…

  • Hanworth Acorn – Seddon Pennine IV – DAN 400H

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    Hanworth Acorn 1970 Seddon Pennine IV Plaxton C51F Hanworth Acorn of Bedfont, Middlesex, was ever an enterprising operator, if not entirely wise, in its choice of vehicles. In 1958 it bought 776 LMU, one of the two rear engined Rutland Clippers made – the other was TKE 741 which went to Aston’s of Marton (though…

  • Manchester Corporation – Albion Aberdonian – UXJ 244 – 44

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    Manchester Corporation1958Albion Aberdonian MR 11LSeddon B42F Single-deckers were always very much in the minority in Manchester Corporation’s fleet. In 1958 a batch of six Albion Aberdonian MR 11L entered service. These had Seddon B42F bodywork. Manchester City Council’s Transport committee had decreed that the bus fleet should be composed of Leylands and Daimlers, so the…

  • 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…