Old bus photos

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  • United Automobile – Bristol K6B – NHN 906 – H6

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    United Automobile Services1950Bristol K6BECW H30/26R  Here we have a line up of three United Automobile buses in Scarborough bus station. the one in the centre is as the specification above having a Bristol AVW 8.1 litre six cylinder diesel engine. In 1965 all United double decker buses had the Bristol engine, 20 had been converted…

  • United Automobile – Bristol LS6B – XHN 402 – BUE2

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    United Automobile Services1955Bristol LS6BECW DP39F Waiting in Glasgow, exact location unknown, BUE2 is being prepared for departure on the service 14 (later 515) to Whitley Bay. The service ran once a day in winter, and twice a day in summer months. It was a long drawn out affair with a total running time of about…

  • United Automobile – Bristol MW6G – 517 LHN – UE517

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    United Automobile Services1959Bristol MW6GECW DP39F These dual purpose vehicles were purchased for the North East to London route it had coach seats and maybe a bit more leg room but apart from that it was still just a bus. I think when I took this photo in 1966 they had been moved on to shorter…

  • United Automobile – Bristol MW5G – 929 JHN – U529

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    United Automobile Services1959Bristol MW5GECW B45F This is the bus version of a 1959 Bristol MW as opposed to the dual purpose one 6 buses ago, there is quick link to it here. This bus version has a 5 cylinder Gardner engine where the DP version had a 6 cylinder engine probable because of the long…

  • United Automobile – Bristol MW6G – FHN 19C – U719

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    United Automobile Services1965Bristol MW6GECW B45F This is the Bristol MW version with what I think has a very good looking front I think they got the idea from the SUL and improved on it. In all the time I have been on the web researching other buses I have never seen a photo of a…

  • United Automobile – Bristol MW6G – 7545 HN – UE545

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    United Automobile Services1962Bristol MW6GECW DP41F Previous shots of United Automobile single deck vehicles on this site have been bus bodied or coach bodied, here we have a dual purpose bodied MW6G. United as like many other of the Tilling group had a different livery for each type of vehicle body. United’s dual purpose vehicles livery…

  • United Automobile – Bristol RE – 104 VHN – RE4

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    United Automobile Services1964Bristol RELH6GECW C43F 104 VHN, was new in January 1964, with the fleet number BRC4; I am not sure when the last of the type were delivered, but the ECW bodied RELH6s were among the last United vehicles to carry this understated and distinctive livery. Some of the early Plaxton bodied Bristols did,…

  • United Automobile – Bristol RELH6G – NHN 143E – 4343

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    United Automobile Services1967Bristol RELH6GECW C43F United had a small Garage at Pickering where the forecourt doubled up as a Bus Station.Here 4343 (originally RE43) is loading for a trip along the A170 seventeen miles to Scarborough.I expect this vehicle retained its manual gearbox which I would think could be tricky on a Stage Service. It…