Tag: SELNEC PTE
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SELNEC and New Half Cab Bus Production
Whilst not wishing to break the date limits of this site, I’ve recently come across something intriguing that I’d all but forgotten relating to a design that definitely falls within the site’s scope and has brought up memories of something I tried to sort out in the 1980s and to which I never found a…
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The First PTEs – Part Four – Salford City Transport
Not read from the beginning, click here In 1946, Salford Corporation Transport was in a mess. John Blakemore, who had started with the Department as a Points Boy was about to retire and his operation was a testament to his lax management style and lack of organisation. A reasonably modern bus fleet was in a…
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The First PTEs – Part Three – Stockport Corporation
Not read from the beginning, click here On October 31st 1969 Stockport Corporation Transport had a fleet of 148 buses plus a handful of service vehicles. The next day all had been transferred to the Southern division of SELNEC whose management may have been rather surprised to find they had taken on charge a 1926…
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The First PTEs – Part Two – SHMD Board
Not read from the beginning, click here There were no fewer than 11 operators absorbed by SELNEC. Eighth in size and possibly the most odd in many respects was the Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield Transport and Electricity Board, so a few paragraphs about the operator are in order. Set up by an Act of…
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The First PTEs – Part One – Ashton under Lyne
Not read from the beginning, click here With its blind already set for the next outward journey, LTC 768 a 1950 H30/26R PD2/3 travels along Warrington Street, unrecognisable today, towards the bus station. Route 128 was originally trolleybus route 217. Haughton Green was a small village beyond Denton which lost its rural aspect in the…
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The First PTEs – The Beginning of the End for the Corporation Bus – SELNEC – Introduction
For almost 80 years the Corporation Bus was a fixture in many cities, towns and even rural areas around the United Kingdom. A low cost social transport service providing for many councils a nett income generator, the colour schemes and coats of arms carried were as much an identifier of the locale as the buildings…
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Stockport Corporation – Leyland Titan – KJA 871F – 71/5871
Copyright Ken Jones Stockport Corporation1968Leyland Titan PD3/14East Lancs H38/32R KJA 871F is a Leyland Titan PD3/14 with East Lancs H38/32R body, new to Stockport Corporation as their no. 71 in February 1968. It is preserved at The Manchester Museum of Transport in Boyle Street, Cheetham Hill. Greater Manchester. The museum is next to an operational…
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SELNEC PTE – Daimler CVG6 – TRJ 128 – 4017
SELNEC PTE1962Daimler CVG6Metro-Cammell H37/28R (Orion) During the Selnec era, quite a number of ex-Salford buses were transferred to the former Manchester Corporation Depot at Queens Road. Most of these were Leyland Atlanteans and PD2’s, which would be quite at home among the ex-Manchester Leylands based here, although I wondered what the Queens Road crews made…