Tag: Willowbrook
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Hebble – AEC Reliance – GCP 8 – 179
Photo by unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Hebble Motor Services1956AEC Reliance MU3RVWillowbrook B44F I can recognize that this photo was taken outside the Hebble depot at Walnut Street in the depths of the terrace streets of north Halifax. They also had a depot in Bradford at Park…
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Chesterfield Corporation – AEC Reliance – 495 ALH – 18
Chesterfield Corporation1960AEC Reliance MU3RAWillowbrook B42D Chesterfield bought this bus from London Transport it was RW1 in their fleet. Roof windows were more likely to be found on dual purpose or coaches rather than on a bus but this bus had them. It also had a dual entrance with, as usual at London Transport a front…
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Rochdale Corporation – AEC Reliance – GDK 324D – 24
Rochdale Corporation1966AEC Reliance 6MU2RAWillowbrook B45F Rochdale were always a good customer for AEC vehicles especially single deckers all from 1940 were AEC. Front engined Regals to start with to rear engined Swifts with the very dependable underfloor Reliance in between, the above does look quite smart with its Willowbrook body. I do like the roof…
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Northern General – AEC Reliance – FT 9917 – 2262
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. The Northern General Transport Company1957AEC Reliance MU3RVWillowbrook B43F When it was new in 1957, this Willowbrook bodied AEC Reliance was one of three in the Tynemouth and District fleet, FT 9916/8 – 216/8 the livery was always all one colour but…
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Western Welsh – AEC Reliance – WKG 284 – 1284
Western Welsh Omnibus1961AEC Reliance 2MU3RAWillowbrook DP41F Delivered in 1961 to Western Welsh, WKG 284 is a dual purpose AEC Reliance with Willowbrook body. WKG 284 would last with the company until 1972 when it then passed to Gelligaer UDC. It has been restored by the RE-Liance Bus Preservation Group and was photographed from an open…
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PMT – AEC Reliance – WJO 744 – S5626
Potteries Motor Traction1955AEC Reliance MU3RVWillowbrook B45F Nine of these AEC Reliance MU3RV’s with Willowbrook B45F bodies had been ordered by City of Oxford Motor Services for delivery in 1955. Registered in Oxford as WJO 736-744, the last three were instead diverted to PMT which numbered them S5624-5626 and placed them in their Wells Motor Services…
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PMT – AEC Reliance – 761 CVT – C8761
Potteries Motor Traction1958AEC Reliance 470Willowbrook C41F PMT had five of these coaches plus one similar acquisition on a Leyland Tiger Cub chassis from the takeover of Dawsons, Ash Bank. They suffered as always with AH470 engines with cylinder head gasket and wet liner seal failures. This is why this photo was taken adjacent to Llandrindod…
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London Transport – AEC Reliance – 497 ALH – RW3
London Transport1960AEC Reliance 2MU2RAWillowbrook B42D 497 ALH, AEC Reliance 2MU2RA with Willowbrook B42D body, dates from 1960. She is, of course, better known as seen here in London Transport’s RW3 guise, although she spent some time with other operators – notably Chesterfield with her two sisters. She’s seen at the Alton Rally on 21 July…
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Maidstone & District – AEC Reliance – 3 YKK – S 3
Maidstone & District Motor Services Ltd1963AEC Reliance 2U3RAWillowbrook B53F S 3 was among Maidstone & Districts first 36ft long vehicles being an AEC Reliance 2U3RA with a Willowbrook B53F body delivered in September 1963 as part of a batch of four, the body was to the early BET design with a curved rear dome and…
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David MacBrayne – AEC Reliance – LUS 524E – 150
David MacBrayne Ltd.1967AEC Reliance 2U3RAWillowbrook DP49F LUS 524E is a 1967 AEC Reliance 590 2U3RA with Willowbrook DP49F body. It was new to the legendary Scottish operator, David MacBrayne, fleet number 150. When MacBraynes ceased operation of bus services, it passed to Highland Omnibuses, being painted in that operator’s superb blue and red livery. Although…