Tag: Trent
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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 It was withdrawn by Trent in 1963 and is shown here four years later laying over in the shadow of Caernarvon Castle on…