Tag: Short Bros
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Southdown – Leyland Tiger – AUF 851 – 51 (551 from 1937)
Copyright Jack Turley/Dinnages Southdown Motors Services1934Leyland Tiger TS6TShort Bros. B40C (B39C from about 1946) Two of these impressive and handsome vehicles (51 & 52) were purchased in 1934 for the Eastbourne to Beachy Head tourist service. The local authority would only allow the service to operate with single-deckers, so Southdown decided to buy the largest…
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Portsmouth Corporation – AEC Regent I – RV 719 – 35
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Portsmouth Corporation1931AEC Regent IShort Bros. H26/24R This vehicle was one of two early diesel-engined buses bought by Portsmouth Corporation in 1931, the other being a Crossley Condor. They were both bought as an experiment and compared with four Leyland Titan TD1,…
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Wakefields Motors – AEC Regent I – FT 2611 – 42
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Wakefields Motors1932AEC Regent IShort Bros – Northern Coachbuilders H56R (1945) Featured elsewhere on this site is a posting of a 1931 Short Bros bodied AEC Regent of Portsmouth Corporation. Between 1931/2 Percy Main depot took delivery of 16 virtually identical vehicles,…
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National Omnibus – AEC Regent I – GF 7217
Copyright V C Jones Copyright Surfleet Transport Photos Copyright J C Gilham National Omnibus/LGOC/London Transport1930AEC Regent IShort Bros. L26/24R In LGOC days, it competed with independents as much in the rural areas around London as in Central London. Two of the main contenders were, in the South, East Surrey, based in Reigate, and, in the…