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North Western – Dennis Loline III – RDB 890 – 890
North Western Road Car1961Dennis Loline IIIAlexander H39/32F Not the best photographic shot in the world, taken on a very cold, misty winters day, but I think well worth showing. North Western mainly used single deckers on the X12 Manchester to Bradford route but on this day look what turned up. The radiator of the Dennis…
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North Western – Dennis Loline III – RDB 892 – 892
Copyright Roger Cox North Western Road Car1961Dennis Loline IIIAlexander H39/32F This picture, taken on a Saturday in the summer of 1966, shows Dennis Loline III No 892 of North Western turning from Commercial Street into George Street, Halifax, on its trans Pennine X12 run from Bradford to Manchester. Double deckers were often used on Saturdays…
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Reading Corporation – Dennis Loline – GRD 576D – 76
Copyright Pete Davies Reading Corporation1966Dennis Loline IIIEast Lancs H38/30F Here is a Reading Corporation Dennis Loline III with an East Lancs H38/30F bodywork, and is seen arriving at Wisley Airfield for the “Cobham” Running Day on 4 April, 2004. The Loline, as most know already, was the Bristol Lodekka built under licence by Dennis of…
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North Western – Dennis Loline III – RDB 873/892 – 873/892
North Western Road Car Co1962Dennis Loline IIIAlexander H39/32F Here is another picture of RDB 892 passing through Halifax en route to Manchester on another remarkably bright (for Halifax) summer day in 1966. This bus seems to have been a regular performer on the X12. The North Western Loline IIIs carried the chassis designations L3AF2B1 and…
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West Riding – Dennis Loline III – FCP 303E – 552
West Riding Automobile1967Dennis Lowline IIINorthern Counties H41/33F During the mid-1960’s with the recent arrival of Geoffrey Hilditch as General Manager at Halifax Corporation, the Joint Omnibus Committee had begun to develop its tour and private hire operations, acquiring a number of secondhand coaches to that end. A works contract had been obtained requiring a number…
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Middlesbrough Corporation – Dennis Loline II – LXG 243 – 43
Middlesbrough Corporation1960Dennis Loline IINorthern Counties FH39/31F The Loline came a bit late really if Dennis had got the licence to build the Lodekka under the name of the Loline sooner I’m sure there would of been a lot more of them than there was. Unfortunately for the Loline in fact for any front engine bus…
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WMPTE ex-Walsall Corporation – Dennis Loline – 885 LDH – 885
WMPTE/ex-Walsall Corporation1960Dennis Loline II YF10Willowbrook H44/30F On 1st October 1969 the Corporation bus fleets of Birmingham, West Bromwich, Walsall and Wolverhampton were absorbed into the newly formed West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive.Due largely to the famously eclectic tastes of its innovative and renowned former General Manager, Mr. R. Edgley Cox, members of the Walsall fleet…
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Middlesbrough Corporation – Dennis Loline I – JDC 599 – 99
Middlesbrough Corporation1958Dennis Loline 1Northern Counties H36/31RD Photo taken on a trip to the Transporter bridge which I walked across the top of I presume it is still there or did they really sell it to the Red Indians. This bus is actually a preservation vehicle loads of information here. I seem to remember at the…
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United Services – Dennis Loline Mk I – SOU 473
Copyright John Stringer United Services1958Dennis Loline MkI 6LWEast Lancs. H37/31RD One of a batch of 34 Lolines delivered to Aldershot & District in 1958 numbered 336-369 (SOU 445-477), SOU 473 was withdrawn by them in 1969. It was then bought by W. R. & P. Bingley of Kinsley, who along with Cooper’s of South Elmsall…