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Worthing Tramocar – Shelvoke & Drewry – PO 1748 – 7
Worthing Tramocar 1930 Shelvoke & Drewry "Freighter" Harrington B20R Here is a picture (a small Box Brownie holiday snap dated 1935 from my collection), showing two Worthing Tramocars’ on the Seafront of that West Sussex town. The rear of the two vehicles is a Shelvoke & Drewry "Freighter" chassis (No. 03:1059), with a Harrington B20R…
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H Brown and Sons – Sentinel STC4/40 – GUJ 608 and Sentinel SLC4/35 – HNT 49
Copyright both shots Peter Williamson H Brown and Sons1950Sentinel STC4/40Sentinel B40F H Brown and Sons1951Sentinel SLC4/35Beadle B??F (ex C35C) The years leading up to 1950 spawned a revolution in the design of single-deck buses and coaches, in which, in an effort to increase passenger capacity, the engine was removed from its traditional prominent position “between…
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Lewis Meridian – Sentinel SLC/6/30 – PXE 761
Copyright Pete Davies Lewis Meridian 1955 Sentinel SLC/6/30 DupleC41C PXE7 61 is a Sentinel SLC/6/30, built in 1955. She has a Duple body (C41C when new to Lewis Meridian of Greenwich) but the bodywork has been altered in this view. We see her parked at East Boldre, near Beaulieu, on 13 April 1986, having been…
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Oldham Corporation – Seddon MK17 L – 203 FBU
Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Oldham Corporation 1963 Seddon MK17L Seddon B36F Another shot from the ‘Do You Know’ page and it appears this is not strictly a PSV, but as Peter Williamson, Stephen Howarth and Les Ronan made the effort to solve the mystery I…
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Lancaster City Transport – Seddon RU – TBU 598G – 598
Lancaster City Transport 1969 Seddon RU Pennine B??F Much has been written, on this website and elsewhere, about the Seddon Pennine. Most of such text is not complimentary. Southampton City Transport had several, with bids for their Gardner engines being far higher than bids for the complete vehicle when they were withdrawn. TBU 598G…
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Demonstrator – Seddon Pennine IV – RBU 502F
Demonstrator 1968 Seddon Pennine IV Pennine B45F Something to give Roger Cox the shudders ! In late 1968 Halifax Corporation borrowed the prototype Seddon Pennine IV demonstrator, though I wonder if the intention was simply to give the manufacturer some operational experience of their new model. Surely manager Geoff Hilditch could never have been serious…
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Popular Coaches – Seddon Mk 4 – DPR 518
H. A. Vincent (Popular Coaches) Thorncombe Dorset 1949 Seddon Mk 4 Santus C30F DPR 518 is a Seddon Mk 4 with a Santus (the Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball family of Wigan) bodywork to a C30F format. It was new to H. A. Vincent in 1949 and is seen in the depot yard at Mallard Road,…
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Hanworth Acorn – Seddon Pennine IV – DAN 400H
Hanworth Acorn 1970 Seddon Pennine IV Plaxton C51F Hanworth Acorn of Bedfont, Middlesex, was ever an enterprising operator, if not entirely wise, in its choice of vehicles. In 1958 it bought 776 LMU, one of the two rear engined Rutland Clippers made – the other was TKE 741 which went to Aston’s of Marton (though…
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Alex Moulton – Moulton – Unregistered
Alex Moulton Moulton 1970 Moulton C23F The Moulton was developed by Dr Alex Moulton of "folding bicycle and rubber suspension for cars" fame. He died, aged 92, early in December 2012. The coach was built in 1970 and is a one off. This curious-looking beast is now in the care of the Science Museum and…
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Horndean – Morris Commercial – DS 7422
Copyright Pete Davies Horndean Private Hire 1926 Morris Commercial 1 Ton Harris B10D DS 7422 is shown in the PSVC listing for 2012 as being a 1926 Morris Commercial 1 Ton vehicle, with B10D body by Harris of Clanfield. She’s seen here in the Southsea Rally of 8 June 1986, in the markings of Horndean…