Tag: Trent
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Trent Double Decker
Sorry this is only half a Trent bus but could anyone tell me more about it please? The vehicle registration no is CH 4073, the number on the driver’s door is 207 and the destination board reads ‘Matlock’.The conductor lived in Scotland until March 1924 so the photo must have been taken after that date.I’d…
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Visiting Grandad
When I was about 4 my grandparents moved from the Nottingham suburb of Mapperley to Hucknall – now the northern terminus of the Nottingham tram system, but then way outside the precincts of Nottingham City Transport. Hucknall was a mining “village” and my grandmother always referred to it disparagingly as “Mucky ’Uckna’ ”. From our…
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Trent – SOS DON – RC 2721 – 321
Trent Motor Traction 1935 SOS DON Brush B36F Pictured on the HCVC Brighton Run in 1969 is RC 2721, an ex Trent SOS DON of 1935 with a Brush front entrance bus body that originally held 36 seats. SOS vehicles were favoured by the Trent and Northern companies during the 1930s, and the vehicle radiators…
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Trent – AEC Regal I – RC 9668/74 – 303/768
Copyright Bob Gell Trent Motor Traction 303 – 1947 – AEC Regal I – Willowbrook FDP39F Trent Motor Traction 768 – 1947 – AEC Regal I – Willowbrook B35F A company not yet represented on this site is Trent Motor Traction, so this photo is to rectify that omission. In the early postwar years, Trent…
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Express Motors – AEC Regal I 0662 – RC 9680
Express Motors1947AEC Regal I 0662Willowbrook rebody 1958 FDP39F RC 9680 was new to Trent in 1947 with a Willowbrook B35F body being lengthened and fitted with a new Willowbrook body in 1958. It was withdrawn by Trent in 1963 and is shown here four years later laying over in the shadow of Caernarvon Castle on…