oiltreader:
Dennis Javelin:
oiltreader:
coomsey:
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That’s the way to do it ! nmpHi coomsey it’s a 1938 AEC Regent of Glasgow City Corporation .
OilyReg no BUS148. Quite apt for a bus.
US a City of Glasgow reg and the Corporatiion as I remember had an "arrangement " for a monopoly on all reg numbers with BUS of that era. During my time('57/'58) at Grangemouth Depot and running Bo’ness to Glasgow for that run we had single decker AEC Reliances, clippies and driver operated door and it was a fare stage stop only route, villages and towns.
Oily
They only used reg no’s BUS 101-200. Later in 1938 they used BYS and CUS prefixes so I don’t think they even thought of the reg no as being that significant. It was only in the late 40’s and 50’s when they used the FYS prefix and late 50’s early 60’s when they had SGD that they had a monopoly over a set of reg no’s. As far as I can remember the FYS prefix was used for a variety of Corporation vehicles not just buses but the SGD prefix was certainly only ever used for buses. They stopped using the SGD prefix when the suffix letters came in during the early 60’s starting with AGA101B…