Tag: West Yorkshire
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West Yorkshire – Bristol JO5G – BWT 765 – 970
Copyright Roy Marshall West Yorkshire Road Car Company1937Bristol JO5GECW B32F West Yorkshire Bristol JO5G 970 with Eastern Coach Works (ECW) B32F body built in 1937 is also seen at Bradford Chester Street Bus Station about 1950. It would appear to being used as a temporary crew rest room after a duty on a service from…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol JO5G – AWW 165 – 925
Photograph by “unknown” – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. West Yorkshire Road Car Company1936Bristol JO5GECOC B32F Bristol JO5G 925 is seen operating on a local service in Harrogate about 1950. This bus was one of sixty built by the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company in 1935/36 and is of the…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol GO5G – YG 8986 – 306
Copyright Roy Marshall West Yorkshire Road Car Company1935Bristol GO5GEastern Counties L53R West Yorkshire Bristol GO5G 306 with Eastern Counties L53R body built in 1935 is seen at Bradford Chester Street Bus Station about 1950. It is ready to depart to Baildon via Canal Road and this information is clearly displayed on its “bible” indicator. For…
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York – West Yorkshire – Bristol GO5G – AWW 27 – Y 327
Copyright Keith A Jenkinson York – West Yorkshire1935Bristol GO5GECOC H58R This picture was taken at York Station in 1937, and shows the vehicle, in its original livery, on the ‘Circle’ route – 1/8, Tang Hall – Beckfield Lane – Burton Stone Lane. The vertical line in the middle of the ‘bible’ indicator clearly suggests that…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol LS5G – MWY 226 – EUG 15
West Yorkshire Road Car Co1954Bristol LS5GECW DP41F Quite what this Harrogate based West Yorkshire LS5G was doing in Waterhouse Street, Halifax, in the summer of 1965 I am unsure, but it seems to be a curious choice of vehicle if it was on private hire duty. No doubt our Halifax experts will come up with…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol MW6G – AWU 466B – 1146
Copyright Brendan Smith West Yorkshire Road Car Company1964Bristol MW6GECW DP41F Originally numbered SMG38, this vehicle became 1146 in West Yorkshire’s 1971 renumbering programme. It was one of twenty-six MW6G buses delivered to WY in 1963/64 – these being the first new single-decker WY buses for some time. For quite a few years previously, the Company…
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West Yorkshire – Bristol RELH6G – AWR 405B – ERG 5
Copyright John Stringer West Yorkshire Road Car Co1964Bristol RELH6GECW DP47F A while back I posted a gallery of photos taken on the occasion of a Farewell to Samuel Ledgard tour in 1967.Taken on the same day at the start of the tour is this one showing West Yorkshire Road Car’s fine Bristol RELH6G/ECW coach ERG5…
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West Yorkshire – Morris Commercial – HYG 972 – 618
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. West Yorkshire Road Car Company1949Morris CommercialBeadle B35R 618 was one of a pair (with 619) of Morris Commercial/Beadle buses bought by West Yorkshire in 1949. They were equipped with new Morris Commercial running units and a Morris-built Saurer 6 cylinder diesel…