Old bus photos

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  • Yorkshire Woollen District Extended Tigers

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    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…

  • Wilts & Dorset Bedford VALs

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    I was looking at an article relating to the centenary this year of Wilts & Dorset and clicked on to a website that was mentioned in the text, as I scrolled down the page I came upon a handsome photo of a line-up of Bedford VALs in W&D livery all parked ready for a departure…

  • Crosville Bus circa 1965

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    I am trying to find image of typical single floor Crosville that went route Rhydymwyn/Mold around 1965 any ideas please? Gayl 07/08/15 – 17:01 Hi GaylI can’t find any photos taken in Mold, but perhaps this link will give you an idea of the sort of bus operating in your area. This one was taken…

  • West Riding Centre Entrance

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    I’m trying to identify a bus being used by this company in the early / mid 1950s.They were double deck, used on the Wakefield to Ossett route and the distinctive feature was the double width door exactly midway along the side of the bus.There was no other passenger door. In my recollection there were no…

  • Colwyn Bay Buses

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    I have three bought slides (from the Arnold Richardson “Photobus” collection) depicting Colwyn Bay buses. WCA 186, WCA 729 and CUN 302L. All are Bedfords of some sort, but can anyone advise me of their model types and their fleet numbers if there were any? I haven’t been able to find a fleet list on…

  • Manchester Lowbridge Bus

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    I have a photo which includes a lowbridge Manchester Corporation bus – dated to early 1941. It’s only the rear and I wondered if anyone is expert enough to know the make of vehicle/body and number range of these. it looks to be in the 1XX range, but it’s not really clear. It’s hard to…

  • Watlington 1950s

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    I’m researching the following and struggling to find anything so hope you can help.Looking for picture(s) Mid to Late 1950s of double decker bus on route (don’t know route number). Presume it was City of Oxford (could be wrong) from High Wycombe bus station to Watlington, I believe it went via Stokenchurch. They only ran…

  • Legal Ownership Lettering

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    As a youngster fascinated by the various comings and goings of vehicles around and about, I spotted on the lower nearsides of buses and coaches legal lettering giving details of their ownership. Usually headed by the name of the operator (eg: West Yorkshire Road Car Co Ltd), together with its headquarters (eg: East Parade, Harrogate),…

  • Iveson’s Service

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    I have found your interesting page on Samuel Ledgard (Exors of) on the web while searching for information on a (market day?) bus service known as “Iveson’s Service” which I believe ran in the Otley area (to Dacre where they may have been based). I wonder if anyone has any information on this operation. I…

  • York Bros of Northampton

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    Any gen available from this forum on the Northampton privateer York Bros, which ran a fleet of beautifully liveried AECs luxury coaches, each bearing an HMS … Ship name in the rear glass panel under the window? All bought new, I ‘m certain. However, they also ran, in their ever spotless condition, two ex-L.T. Craven…