Tag: Dennis
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Dennis Gearbox Drawings
Ian Thompson Here are eight attachments to accompany my comment in response to Mike Norris’s question. Eight may seem too many (!) but they’re all necessary in order to get an idea of the very wide choice of gearbox that Dennis offered. My thanks to Alexander Dennis Limited for their permission to reproduce part of…
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Info for a Dennis Required
I am writing to you from Johannesburg and would like to know whether anyone can identify the year of manufacture of the bus in the attached photo please.Our family hails from Walsall and my dear old Dad, Sidney Lockley, pictured in the photo, used to drive buses for Walsall Transport prior to WWII and after…
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LUT Loline Replacement Gearbox
Gentlemen, can anybody throw light on this one.I drove (1970-1972) for LUT at Swinton, we had 6 Lolines, 6, 7, 36, 37, 38 & 39 principally to get beneath Patricroft station bridge on routes 14 & 22. Some time before 1970, no 6 was involved in an accident in fog with a private train on…
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Simpsons EPL 628
This is a Ron Doig image copyright Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust. Does anyone know anything about the vehicle? Stephen Allcroft 28/10/15 – 13:30 Zooming in on the top of the rad there appears to be a rectangular makers name plate, though it gets too pixelated to read.Could it be Dennis? Anon 28/10/15 – 13:30 What…
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Eastern Counties Dennis/ECW Integral Buses
Roger Cox In 1938 and 1939, Eastern Counties took delivery of 18 Dennis Aces with ECW B20F bodies and Gardner 4LK engines. Two more unfrozen examples arrived in 1941. In 1947, at a time of acute vehicle shortages, a prototype Beadle chassisless bus appeared in the Eastern Counties fleet. It was one of four Beadle…
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London County Council – Dennis Triton – MUL 614
London County Council1952Dennis Triton TV3Dennis B21C The Dennis company during its independent days was ever prepared to meet specialist needs in the passenger, municipal and haulage transport fields. The Dennis Triton was a flat framed, small passenger chassis, seemingly a variant of the Pax municipal type, with a wheelbase of 10ft 6ins, though a 9ft…
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Chiltern Queens – Dennis Pelican – 530 BPG
Copyright Ray Soper Chiltern Queens of Woodcote1956Dennis PelicanDuple Midland B44F This shot is from the Ray Soper gallery contribution titled “Chiltern Queens of Woodcote” click on the title if you would like to view his Gallery and comments.The shot is shown here for indexing purposes but please feel free to make any comment regarding this…
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Llandudno UDC – Dennis Pax V – FJC 737F
Llandudno UDC1968Dennis Pax VDennis B33F In the latter months of 1968 Llandudno UDC replaced its two Foden PVSC6 coaches, www.old-bus-photos.co.uk/ used on the exceedingly steep Great Orme route, with two specially constructed Dennis Pax V buses with Dennis B33F bodywork, registered FJC 736/7F. After the delivery of the last five production Lolines to Halifax in…
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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…