Tag: Sheffield Corporation
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Stans Gallery – Part One – Sheffield Corporation
Below are eight black & white shots of Sheffield Corporation vehicles I thought you would like to see, not all of the shots have been cropped to benefit the vehicles allowing some good street scenes with rather nice old cars. Stan Zapiec04/2014 Here are Sheffield 898 – 898 WJ a Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 new 1959…
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Sheffield Bus Bodies
A lot has been said about Sheffield not having a standard bus – unlike London, Manchester and Birmingham. This may have been true but, apart from those quirky deliveries to spice up the life of a gricer, Sheffield did adhere to a fairly strict dual order policy. From the ’20s until mid ’60s this meant…
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The Mystery of the Second Sheffield No 12
This is a tale of coincidence and collaboration that shows how shared research between enthusiasts can solve mysteries. In July 1997 I began what was to become a fascinating exchange of letters with the late Charles C Hall of Sheffield. It began simply enough with a request from me for a copy of his photograph…
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Sheffield Buses in the Snow
Monday 1st January 1968 A heavy snowfall starting about 18:00hrs was the prelude to an hour of chaos on services 61/63 on Greystones Road between 19:00 and 20:00hrs. The 19:03 ex Hunters Bar on service 61 operated by 813 became stuck at the Greystones Grange Road bus stop. The driver telephoned for assistance (fortunately there…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD3 – 4462 WE – 462
Copyright ‘unknown’ if you know please get in touch Sheffield Corporation1959Leyland PD3/1Roe H39/30R This was one of the first 30ft long double deckers for Sheffield and was one of a batch of 30 similar buses. In a typically perverse way these buses, all for the A fleet, were numbered 461-476 and 901-914. Logic suggests they…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan – 4461 WE – 461
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1959Leyland Titan PD3/1Roe H39/30R An earlier Sheffield posting showed sister bus 462 when brand new outside the Roe factory. Here is 461 towards the end of its life on 13th July 1974 passing the Three Merry Lads pub returning from an occasional extension of the 51 service to Wyming Brook. By…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – KWA 545 – 545
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1947Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland H30/26R This is an all Leyland (H30/26R) PD2/1 of the first batch of 20 delivered to Sheffield in October 1947. These were withdrawn between 1963 and 1965 but then nine of them were reinstated and lasted until 1966. In May 1966 The Leeds and District Transport News came…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – PWA 258 – 158
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1953Leyland PD2/12Weymann H32/26R Sheffield operated a number of occasional services to small villages and hamlets to the north west of the City. Ewden Valley Village lay about a mile off the main Sheffield to Stocksbridge route 57 via a Sheffield Corporation Waterworks private road and was primarily home to workers…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2/20 – YWB 294 – 1294
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1957Leyland PD2/20ECW H31/28R Sheffield Joint Omnibus Committee took delivery of eight Leyland PD2/20 in 1957 of which five had Eastern Coachworks bodies and the remaining three were bodied by Roe.The purchase of the three B fleet and two C fleet ECW bodied buses was made possible by the connection with the…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – RWJ 713 – 713
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1954Leyland Titan PD2/12Weymann H32/26R It’s 27th April 1968 and Sheffield 713 turns from Leopold Street terminus into West Street on another trip out into the country at Rivelin Dams.713 was one of the batch of 56 (the largest single batch of buses purchased by Sheffield) delivered in March/April 1954 to replace…