Tag: Yorkshire Woollen
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What’s the difference
I would like to know the difference between Yorkshire, Yorkshire Woollen and Yorkshire Traction, can you help please? Allen Williams Yorkshire and Yorkshire (Woollen District) were one and the same. Buses only had “Yorkshire” on the sides. They were based in Dewsbury and operated services out to Leeds, Huddersfield, Wakefield and Bradford – and all…
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AEC Regent 4½
I believe Yorkshire Woollen District cut down the engines of the Regent Vs so as to save fuel and that AEC ordered the blue triangles to be removed. Can anyone confirm this please. Philip Carlton I must say that I’ve never heard of this theory and, if “Yorkshire Woollen” did adopt this measure then they…
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Yorkshire Woollen District Extended Tigers
I am a bus modeller with a lifelong interest in Leyland buses, although other makes also go through my workshops from time to time. Although we are now sixty years on after the event, it seems that there was a heck of a lot of lengthening of single deckers going on within the BET in…
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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…