Tag: Wakefields Motors
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Wakefields Motors – Leyland Titan PD3 – AFT 935 – 235
Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Wakefields Motors LtdLeyland Titan PD3/41958Metro-Cammell ‘Orion’ H41/32R This 1958 Metro-Cammell Orion bodied Leyland PD3/4 was one of 12 in the Tynemouth and Wakefields fleet. They were AFT 924/35 fleet numbers 224/35; the last two carried the Wakefields name. The Northern General…
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Wakefields Motors – Leyland Tiger TS8 – FT 45?4 – 104
Photograph by “unknown” – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Wakefields Motors1937Leyland Tiger TS8Duple C30F Regarded by many as one of the most handsome pre war coach bodies, if my information is correct, Wakefields Motors had four of these C30F Duple Coronations. FT 45?4/7 – 104/7, from 1937, were on…
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Wakefields Motors – Bedford SB5 – HFT 264 – 264
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Wakefields Motors Ltd1963Bedford SB5Plaxton C41F The coach fleets of Northern General Transport and its subsidiaries was pretty much as you would expect from a BET company, usually an AEC, Guy or Leyland chassis, and a mixture of high quality bodies from…
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Wakefields Motors – AEC Reliance – FT 9002 – 202
Wakefields Motors1955AEC Reliance MU3RVWeymann C41F Am I in a minority, or was the Weymann Fanfare one of the most handsome coach bodies ever built? Whatever chassis they were on they looked exactly what they were, well designed, well built and comfortable. To me they fell into the same category as the first Burlingham Seagulls, nothing…
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Wakefields Motors – AEC Reliance – FT 9000 – 200
Copyright Unknown Wakefields Motors1955AEC Reliance MU3RVWeymann C41F I’ve recently been to an Historic vehicle rally at Seaburn, and as usual I came back with a load of photos, some I took and others I bought. But I managed to get hold of one that has eluded me for a while, and that is a colour…
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Wakefields Motors – AEC Regent II – FT 6156 – 156
Wakefields Motors1948AEC Regent IIWeymann H30/26R Having completed its journey, 156 is seen here turning round at Whitley Bay Bandstand before returning to North Shields Ferry Landing. The service 8 was known to crews as ‘the track’ because it followed the exact route of the Tynemouth and District trams. The AEC Regent II chassis was well…
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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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Wakefields Motors – AEC Regal – FT 7278 – 178
Wakefields Motors1952AEC Regal 1Beadle FC35F These Beadle bodies were popular with many BET group companies, most were built on refurbished pre war chassis, usually AEC or Leyland, and that was certainly the case with ten of Northern General Transport. However, from as early as 1923, NGT had a number of vehicles built on their own…