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Tag: Ian Thompson

  • Dennis Gearbox Drawings

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    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…

  • Enjoyable Weekend

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    I’ve just had a very enjoyable weekend: Saturday, North West Museum of Road Transport at St Helens; Sunday, Dewsbury Running Day. I wish I could have squeezed in Aldwarke too, but that’s for another time DV. This magnificent Albion was running between the Museum at Ravensthorpe and Dewsbury bus station. I first saw it in…

  • If only…

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    Ian Thompson Like most of us, I’ve got a long “If only…” list. Among my regrets are that, as far as I know, no pre-war Guy Arabs survive; no double-deck Thornycrofts or Maudslays or Tilling-Stevens; that the low floor Gilford double-decker and the Leyland TB10 trolleybus were scrapped; that I didn’t save ex-Leeds PD1 JUG…

  • Wanted an AEC, but ended up with an Albion

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    Ian Thompson From 1933-4 until 1949-50 Reading Corporation ran a batch of eight Park Royal 6-bay L26/25R AEC Regents, some petrol (mostly later coverted to 7.7 oiler) and some with 8.8 oil engine. The lowbridge bodies were most unusual in having straight staircases, of which you can see a skeletal view on p71 of Alan…

  • Penny wise, pound foolish

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    Ian Thompson A pioneer in the the teaching of English to foreign learners once declared that he never taught proverbs; he felt they were folksy and old-fashioned. Well, I thoroughly disagree with him. The anecdote below exemplifies at least the following handful: “A penny wise and a pound foolish.”“Better safe than sorry.”“Many a true word…

  • Five Shots Taken in the Fifties

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    Five colour photographs taken during the 1950s. Not the best of photography, I fear, but possibly useful for the record. Ian Thompson02/2020 Taken at Hastings in 1957, a Maidstone and District 1936 Leyland TD4 CKE 418, with a 1950 Beadle body that at the time I took to be original because of its prewar look.…