Tag: Yorkshire Woollen
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Yorkshire Woollen District Tigers and Arabs
When new, the Willowbrook bodied PS2s (697-725) and OPD2s (728-733) of Yorkshire Woollen District were painted in the old livery of maroon with cream bands above and below the windows. (The maroon was not quite the standard shade). They were unusual in that they were fully lined out with black edging to the cream and…
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Yorkshire Woollen District – Leyland Titan – HD 8553 – 699
Yorkshire Woollen District Transport1963Leyland Titan PD2Roe H63R Now this gets interesting according to my book this is a 1950 Leyland Titan PD2/3 with a Roe H56R body. Well it is defiantly not a rear entrance that’s plain to see and the registration of just two letters I think came well before 1950. I think its…
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Yorkshire Woollen District – Leyland Titan – UTF 930 – 773
Copyright Bob Gell Yorkshire Woollen District1954Leyland Titan PD2/20MCW H34/29R The above shot was sent to me by Bob Gell with the following comment: There is correspondence under the Yorkshire Woollen District Tiger PS1 posting about this vehicle – I took the attached photo in July 1969 at Dewsbury Bus Station. I’m intrigued by the total…
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Yorkshire Woollen District – Leyland Titan – 3156 WE – 135
Copyright John Stringer Yorkshire Woollen District1958Leyland PD2/30Roe H33/26RD Sheffield buses seem to have a very keen following on the site, so this ex-pat in disguise may be of interest.Around 1970/71 Yorkshire Woollen District were experiencing acute maintenance problems resulting in severe vehicle shortages, and a number of most unlikely temporary second-hand acquisitions appeared on the…
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Yorkshire Woollen District – Leyland Tiger PS1 – HD 7905 – 622
Photograph G. Brooke Yorkshire Woollen District1948Leyland Tiger PS1Brush B34F This great shot of a superb bus arrived above due to a comment made on another YWD vehicle on this site. The person who made the comment said he owned the only survivor of a batch of 75 Brush bodied Leyland Tiger PS1s. This I had…
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Yorkshire Woollen District – Guy Arab II – GKP 4 – 506
Yorkshire Woollen District Transport1943Guy Arab II 6LWRoe H56R Not the best photo but the subject is, this Guy was ex Maidstone & District. From my research there seems to some information that it was re-bodied in 1952 but nine years is not a long time to require a new body unless it was a single…
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Yorkshire Woollen District – Guy Arab II – HD 7424 – 500
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Yorkshire Woollen District1943Guy Arab II 6LWRoe H56R Here is a a good shot of a Guy Arab II going about its business in the Yorkshire mill town area of Dewsbury. The 6LW after the make and model means that this bus…
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Yorkshire Woollen – Ford Thames 570E – GHD 215 – 871
Yorkshire Woollen District1961Ford Thames 570EDuple C41F By the time this picture of a Yorkshire Woollen Thames was taken, it was in preservation. Never my favourite Yorkshire coaches, I found them a little slow and a lot noisy. One of them provided the only occasion I experienced where all passengers had to get off and walk…
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Yorkshire Woollen District – AEC Regent V – FHD 121 – 94
Yorkshire Woollen District1961AEC Regent V 2D3RANorthern Counties H39/31F Yorkshire Woollen was fundamentally a Leyland operator, apart from a few Guy Arabs in the early post war years. The first YWD Regent Vs appeared when ten Metro Cammell H39/31F bodied buses of the LD3RA type were delivered in 1958, to be followed by fifteen more in…
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South Wales – AEC Bridgemaster – WCY 890 – 1210
Copyright Bob Gell South Wales Transport1960AEC Bridgemaster 2B3RAPark Royal H43/29F Now here is a shot of a bus somewhat out of its area, the photo of this South Wales Bridgemaster was taken in July 1969, in Dewsbury Bus Station. At the time it was working on Yorkshire Woolen district routes you can see the top…