Liverpool Corporation Leyland PD2 on Daulby Street in Liverpool.
A Liverpool Corporation Bristol RE on the Dock Road in Liverpool.
Another picture of Liverpool Corporation AEC Regent Mk 111, fleet Number A40,
Reg No. NKD 540, at the Hyde Road depot of Manchester Corporation Transport.
Ray Smyth:
A Liverpool Corporation Bristol RE on the Dock Road in Liverpool.
Ray, please don’t post anymore pictures of the Dock Road in Liverpool, it traumatises me, it took me years to forget the hours I’ve waited in a queue on there. 
This Ailsa Volvo bus is seen near the end of Station Road in Wigan, in the early 1980s.
It is painted in the orange and white livery of Greater Manchester Transport.
The second picture is taken from approximately the same spot recently. The engine
in this bus was at the front, immediately to the left of the driver, so it had a drivers
cab door on the offside, reminiscent of thousands of “Half Cab” buses from the past.
Click on 1st picture twice for better image. Ray Smyth.
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As I’ve already said before: I haven’t the time,and in some cases the information,to add details to many photographs in this great thread. But I
can add details to some of the photographs,use other photographs of the same vehicles in certain cases and also add photographs in some posts 
I’ve done some research on some motor vehicles that have appeared in photographs in some of the posts in this thread,and here are the results in
this my first post on TruckNetUK in 2019
Rastone » Friday,24th August,2018 5:19 pm. Page 3,post 20.
QUOTE:-
Here is a photograh taken by a Mr Fred Ivey in 1963.It is taken in the yard of Titley’s Mill Uttoxeter which was more or less opposite Macdonalds and shows a 1932 ex Derby Corporation Ransomes vehicle. and had been there since 1952 Behind it is an ex Wolverhampton vehicle just arrived at the site.A well known councillor Mr William Clarke lived in the Derby one and I think the other was a replacement.His own home was Heath House which was compulsery purchased by the Council and is still there between the Uttoxeter Fire Station and the Three Tuns pub and looks a fine house.If I remember the school dentist was or is there but not sure.The copyright is held by the British Trolley Bus Society and I have permission to put this on this site for Truck Net and no other.
Tony UNQUOTE.
viewtopic.php?f=35&t=156479&start=60
I haven’t got permission of the British Trolleybus Society to re-post the above Fred Ivey 1963 photograph of the Derby and Wolverhampton
trolleybuses. However,I’ve managed to obtain information on these actual trolleybuses and tracked down photographs of them while they were
working
Sunbeam F4/Metropolitan Vickers British Thomson-Houston 209AY5 95 HP Electric Motor-Powered,/Park Royal H28/26R,4x2,D D Trolleybus,Chassis No.50532,Body No.B32832, FJW 467,10-1948,Wolverhampton,No.467.Lady Wulfrun-Claire-Flickr.1#
Sold to dealer Don Everall Commercial Vehicles,Wolverhampton,9-1963,then to councillor William Clarke,Titley’s Mill,area of the A50 & B5030
and Hollington Lane,Stramshall,near Spath,Uttoxeter,Staffordshire,as a caravan,then to dealer Bloor,Spath,2-1966;scrapped in 1968.
Ransomes,Sims & Jefferies D6/Ransomes,S & J 70 HP Electric Motor-Powered,/Ransomes,S & J H29/27R,6x4 Double Decker Trolleybus,Chassis No.2154,Body No.1398, RC 801,11-1932,Derby,No.101.Derby Telegraph.1#
The only Ransomes,Sims & Jefferies D6 Trolleybus to be operated by Derby Corporation.
To dealer Storer,Derby,9-1950,to councillor William Clarke,Titley’s Mill,area of the A50 & B5030
and Hollington Lane,Stramshall,near Spath,Uttoxeter,Staffordshire,as a caravan by 1952;scrapped in 1964.
One of the great McDonald’s Restaurant’s is now in this area
Ramone,Tuesday,28th August,2018. Page 4,post 13, AEC Regent MkIII.
AEC Regent MkIII/Roe L27/26R Double Decker Bus,Chassis No.9612E2613,Body No.GO3234, BJX 56,Halifax,7-1950,Hebble,No.45,became 245 in 6-1957.Ramone.1#
Ramone,Tuesday,28th August,2018. Page 4,post 14, AEC Regent Tin Front MkV.
AEC Regent MkV Tin Front/Metro Cammell H40/30F Double Decker Bus,Chassis No.2DRA1213, YKW 144,4-1963,Bradford,No.144,re-numbered 2144.Ramone,1#
OilTreader,Friday,12th October,2018. Page 10,post 24,photographs.
5.
Foden PVSC6/-1960 Lawton C35F Motorcoach,Chassis No.27750, LMA 284,Chester C.C.,4-1949,Coppenhall,Sandbach.Originally Wadham C32F.R.Bullock,Cheadle.Martin49-OilTreader.1#
Re-bodied with a Lawton C35F motorcoach body in June 1960,and is thought to be the last halfcab motorcoach body built in the United Kingdom.
Preserved by R.Bullock,Cheadle,and is usually on display at the Museum Of Transport,Manchester.
AEC Renown 664,/LGOC = London General Omnibus Company B35F,6x4,Single Decker Omnibus,Chassis No.664087,Body No.12414,GO 5198,London General LT1076.Scooter. Helen Warlow Twitter.1#
AEC Renown 664/LGOC = London General Omnibus Company B35F,6x4,Single Decker Omnibus,Chassis No.664087,Body No.12414,GO 5198,London General LT1076.Scooter. Classic Buses.2#
Windrush,Sunday,14th October,2018. Page 11,post 4. Crossley,Reading.
Crossley DD42/8,Flat Drive-On-Bodied,4x2 Lorry,Chassis No.95301, ERD 158,BWANA,Reading,11-1950,transporting Fowler T3 Steam Tractor,14406,U 4171. Ex-Reading,No.89,L26/26RD Bus.Marco Havers.1#
Fowler T3 Compound 4NHP Tractor-Type Traction Engine,Engine No.14406,built 2-1917,U 4171,originally CJ 4338,MTOTO,ex-PANDORA.New to Best,Hereford.Based at Selby.BulldozerD11.1#
Crossley DD42/8,Boxvan-Bodied,4x2 Lorry,Chassis No.95301, ERD 158,BWANA,Reading,11-1950. Ex-Reading,No.89,Crossley L26/6RD Bus.Ragsdale,Retford.Picssr.1#
NOTE:In around 1994 the then owner - I can’t remember his name - of both the Crossley,ERD 158,and the Fowler traction engine,No.14406,gave an
illustrated talk about mainly his life working as an engineer for the South African Railways to a group of railway enthusiasts.Being interested myself
in railways I attended this meeting with a friend. The former SAF engineer’s colour photograph slide show included photos of the impressive Beyer Garrett Articulated Steam Railway Locomotives,and also his Crossley and Fowler
NOTE 2:
Hello Coomsey Did you see my reply to you about the ‘Fiats’ in Coalville? 
It’s on Page 12,post 7, Friday,19th October,2018.
viewtopic.php?f=35&t=156479&start=330
Please keep a look out for my next post - I reply to another one of your posts on this thread
VALKYRIE
VALKYRIE:
TruckNetUK . Old Time Lorries . Buses,Motorcoaches & Lorries . Details Added To Some Photographs .1 .Page 23.VALKYRIE . Saturday,19th January,2019As I’ve already said before: I haven’t the time,and in some cases the information,to add details to many photographs in this great thread. But I
can add details to some of the photographs,use other photographs of the same vehicles in certain cases and also add photographs in some postsI’ve done some research on some motor vehicles that have appeared in photographs in some of the posts in this thread,and here are the results in
this my first post on TruckNetUK in 2019Rastone » Friday,24th August,2018 5:19 pm. Page 3,post 20.
QUOTE:-
Here is a photograh taken by a Mr Fred Ivey in 1963.It is taken in the yard of Titley’s Mill Uttoxeter which was more or less opposite Macdonalds and shows a 1932 ex Derby Corporation Ransomes vehicle. and had been there since 1952 Behind it is an ex Wolverhampton vehicle just arrived at the site.A well known councillor Mr William Clarke lived in the Derby one and I think the other was a replacement.His own home was Heath House which was compulsery purchased by the Council and is still there between the Uttoxeter Fire Station and the Three Tuns pub and looks a fine house.If I remember the school dentist was or is there but not sure.The copyright is held by the British Trolley Bus Society and I have permission to put this on this site for Truck Net and no other.
Are you sure I put I had put Titley’s Mill Photo on .I can’t remember doing that and having permission of the British Trolley Society.I will check it out and ask Tim Jeffcote about it.Although I have seen it on other subjects.Tony UNQUOTE.
viewtopic.php?f=35&t=156479&start=6
working
Sunbeam F4/Metropolitan Vickers British Thomson-Houston 209AY5 95 HP Electric Motor-Powered,/Park Royal H28/26R,4x2,D D Trolleybus,Chassis No.50532,Body No.B32832, FJW 467,10-1948,Wolverhampton,No.467.Lady Wulfrun-Claire-Flickr.1#
9Sold to dealer Don Everall Commercial Vehicles,Wolverhampton,9-1963,then to councillor William Clarke,Titley’s Mill,area of the A50 & B5030
and Hollington Lane,Stramshall,near Spath,Uttoxeter,Staffordshire,as a caravan,then to dealer Bloor,Spath,2-1966;scrapped in 1968.
Ransomes,Sims & Jefferies D6/Ransomes,S & J 70 HP Electric Motor-Powered,/Ransomes,S & J H29/27R,6x4 Double Decker Trolleybus,Chassis No.2154,Body No.1398, RC 801,11-1932,Derby,No.101.Derby Telegraph.1#
8The only Ransomes,Sims & Jefferies D6 Trolleybus to be operated by Derby Corporation.
To dealer Storer,Derby,9-1950,to councillor William Clarke,Titley’s Mill,area of the A50 & B5030
and Hollington Lane,Stramshall,near Spath,Uttoxeter,Staffordshire,as a caravan by 1952;scrapped in 1964.One of the great McDonald’s Restaurant’s is now in this area
Ramone,Tuesday,28th August,2018. Page 4,post 13, AEC Regent MkIII.
AEC Regent MkIII/Roe L27/26R Double Decker Bus,Chassis No.9612E2613,Body No.GO3234, BJX 56,Halifax,7-1950,Hebble,No.45,became 245 in 6-1957.Ramone.1#
7
Ramone,Tuesday,28th August,2018. Page 4,post 14, AEC Regent Tin Front MkV.
AEC Regent MkV Tin Front/Metro Cammell H40/30F Double Decker Bus,Chassis No.2DRA1213, YKW 144,4-1963,Bradford,No.144,re-numbered 2144.Ramone,1#
6
OilTreader,Friday,12th October,2018. Page 10,post 24,photographs.
5.
Foden PVSC6/-1960 Lawton C35F Motorcoach,Chassis No.27750, LMA 284,Chester C.C.,4-1949,Coppenhall,Sandbach.Originally Wadham C32F.R.Bullock,Cheadle.Martin49-OilTreader.1#
5Re-bodied with a Lawton C35F motorcoach body in June 1960,and is thought to be the last halfcab motorcoach body built in the United Kingdom.
Preserved by R.Bullock,Cheadle,and is usually on display at the Museum Of Transport,Manchester.
AEC Renown 664,/LGOC = London General Omnibus Company B35F,6x4,Single Decker Omnibus,Chassis No.664087,Body No.12414,GO 5198,London General LT1076.Scooter. Helen Warlow Twitter.1#
4
AEC Renown 664/LGOC = London General Omnibus Company B35F,6x4,Single Decker Omnibus,Chassis No.664087,Body No.12414,GO 5198,London General LT1076.Scooter. Classic Buses.2#
3
Windrush,Sunday,14th October,2018. Page 11,post 4. Crossley,Reading.
Crossley DD42/8,Flat Drive-On-Bodied,4x2 Lorry,Chassis No.95301, ERD 158,BWANA,Reading,11-1950,transporting Fowler T3 Steam Tractor,14406,U 4171. Ex-Reading,No.89,L26/26RD Bus.Marco Havers.1#
2
Fowler T3 Compound 4NHP Tractor-Type Traction Engine,Engine No.14406,built 2-1917,U 4171,originally CJ 4338,MTOTO,ex-PANDORA.New to Best,Hereford.Based at Selby.BulldozerD11.1#
1
Crossley DD42/8,Boxvan-Bodied,4x2 Lorry,Chassis No.95301, ERD 158,BWANA,Reading,11-1950. Ex-Reading,No.89,Crossley L26/6RD Bus.Ragsdale,Retford.Picssr.1#
0NOTE:In around 1994 the then owner - I can’t remember his name - of both the Crossley,ERD 158,and the Fowler traction engine,No.14406,gave an
illustrated talk about mainly his life working as an engineer for the South African Railways to a group of railway enthusiasts.Being interested myself
in railways I attended this meeting with a friend. The former SAF engineer’s colour photograph slide show included photos of the impressive Beyer Garrett Articulated Steam Railway Locomotives,and also his Crossley and Fowler
NOTE 2:
Hello Coomseyviewtopic.php?f=35&t=156479&start=330
Please keep a look out for my next post - I reply to another one of your posts on this thread
VALKYRIE
VALKYRIE:
TruckNetUK . Old Time Lorries . Buses,Motorcoaches & Lorries . Details Added To Some Photographs .1 .Page 23.VALKYRIE . Saturday,19th January,2019As I’ve already said before: I haven’t the time,and in some cases the information,to add details to many photographs in this great thread. But I
can add details to some of the photographs,use other photographs of the same vehicles in certain cases and also add photographs in some postsI’ve done some research on some motor vehicles that have appeared in photographs in some of the posts in this thread,and here are the results in
this my first post on TruckNetUK in 2019Rastone » Friday,24th August,2018 5:19 pm. Page 3,post 20.
QUOTE:-
Here is a photograh taken by a Mr Fred Ivey in 1963.It is taken in the yard of Titley’s Mill Uttoxeter which was more or less opposite Macdonalds and shows a 1932 ex Derby Corporation Ransomes vehicle. and had been there since 1952 Behind it is an ex Wolverhampton vehicle just arrived at the site.A well known councillor Mr William Clarke lived in the Derby one and I think the other was a replacement.His own home was Heath House which was compulsery purchased by the Council and is still there between the Uttoxeter Fire Station and the Three Tuns pub and looks a fine house.If I remember the school dentist was or is there but not sure.The copyright is held by the British Trolley Bus Society and I have permission to put this on this site for Truck Net and no other.Sorry yes I did mention the Copyright bit and remembering getting the permission now so sorry about that.Running the brain without putting the clutch in again.
Tony UNQUOTE.
viewtopic.php?f=35&t=156479&start=60
I haven’t got permission of the British Trolleybus Society to re-post the above Fred Ivey 1963 photograph of the Derby and Wolverhampton
trolleybuses. However,I’ve managed to obtain information on these actual trolleybuses and tracked down photographs of them while they were
working
Sunbeam F4/Metropolitan Vickers British Thomson-Houston 209AY5 95 HP Electric Motor-Powered,/Park Royal H28/26R,4x2,D D Trolleybus,Chassis No.50532,Body No.B32832, FJW 467,10-1948,Wolverhampton,No.467.Lady Wulfrun-Claire-Flickr.1#
9Sold to dealer Don Everall Commercial Vehicles,Wolverhampton,9-1963,then to councillor William Clarke,Titley’s Mill,area of the A50 & B5030
and Hollington Lane,Stramshall,near Spath,Uttoxeter,Staffordshire,as a caravan,then to dealer Bloor,Spath,2-1966;scrapped in 1968.
Ransomes,Sims & Jefferies D6/Ransomes,S & J 70 HP Electric Motor-Powered,/Ransomes,S & J H29/27R,6x4 Double Decker Trolleybus,Chassis No.2154,Body No.1398, RC 801,11-1932,Derby,No.101.Derby Telegraph.1#
8The only Ransomes,Sims & Jefferies D6 Trolleybus to be operated by Derby Corporation.
To dealer Storer,Derby,9-1950,to councillor William Clarke,Titley’s Mill,area of the A50 & B5030
and Hollington Lane,Stramshall,near Spath,Uttoxeter,Staffordshire,as a caravan by 1952;scrapped in 1964.One of the great McDonald’s Restaurant’s is now in this area
Ramone,Tuesday,28th August,2018. Page 4,post 13, AEC Regent MkIII.
AEC Regent MkIII/Roe L27/26R Double Decker Bus,Chassis No.9612E2613,Body No.GO3234, BJX 56,Halifax,7-1950,Hebble,No.45,became 245 in 6-1957.Ramone.1#
7
Ramone,Tuesday,28th August,2018. Page 4,post 14, AEC Regent Tin Front MkV.
AEC Regent MkV Tin Front/Metro Cammell H40/30F Double Decker Bus,Chassis No.2DRA1213, YKW 144,4-1963,Bradford,No.144,re-numbered 2144.Ramone,1#
6
OilTreader,Friday,12th October,2018. Page 10,post 24,photographs.
5.
Foden PVSC6/-1960 Lawton C35F Motorcoach,Chassis No.27750, LMA 284,Chester C.C.,4-1949,Coppenhall,Sandbach.Originally Wadham C32F.R.Bullock,Cheadle.Martin49-OilTreader.1#
5Re-bodied with a Lawton C35F motorcoach body in June 1960,and is thought to be the last halfcab motorcoach body built in the United Kingdom.
Preserved by R.Bullock,Cheadle,and is usually on display at the Museum Of Transport,Manchester.
AEC Renown 664,/LGOC = London General Omnibus Company B35F,6x4,Single Decker Omnibus,Chassis No.664087,Body No.12414,GO 5198,London General LT1076.Scooter. Helen Warlow Twitter.1#
4
AEC Renown 664/LGOC = London General Omnibus Company B35F,6x4,Single Decker Omnibus,Chassis No.664087,Body No.12414,GO 5198,London General LT1076.Scooter. Classic Buses.2#
3
Windrush,Sunday,14th October,2018. Page 11,post 4. Crossley,Reading.
Crossley DD42/8,Flat Drive-On-Bodied,4x2 Lorry,Chassis No.95301, ERD 158,BWANA,Reading,11-1950,transporting Fowler T3 Steam Tractor,14406,U 4171. Ex-Reading,No.89,L26/26RD Bus.Marco Havers.1#
2
Fowler T3 Compound 4NHP Tractor-Type Traction Engine,Engine No.14406,built 2-1917,U 4171,originally CJ 4338,MTOTO,ex-PANDORA.New to Best,Hereford.Based at Selby.BulldozerD11.1#
1
Crossley DD42/8,Boxvan-Bodied,4x2 Lorry,Chassis No.95301, ERD 158,BWANA,Reading,11-1950. Ex-Reading,No.89,Crossley L26/6RD Bus.Ragsdale,Retford.Picssr.1#
0NOTE:In around 1994 the then owner - I can’t remember his name - of both the Crossley,ERD 158,and the Fowler traction engine,No.14406,gave an
illustrated talk about mainly his life working as an engineer for the South African Railways to a group of railway enthusiasts.Being interested myself
in railways I attended this meeting with a friend. The former SAF engineer’s colour photograph slide show included photos of the impressive Beyer Garrett Articulated Steam Railway Locomotives,and also his Crossley and Fowler
NOTE 2:
Hello Coomseyviewtopic.php?f=35&t=156479&start=330
Please keep a look out for my next post - I reply to another one of your posts on this thread
VALKYRIE
TruckNetUK . Old Time Lorries . Buses,Motorcoaches & Lorries . Details Added To Some Photographs .2 .Page 23.VALKYRIE . Sunday,20th January,2019.
Coomsey,Saturday,10th November,2018. Page 15,post 23,Coalville,Leicestershire-based motorcoaches and buses.
AEC Regent O661/Northern Counties H30/26R DD Bus,Chassis No.O6617285,Body No.3368, EUP 598,Durham,2-1942,Stockton,No.83.Sold to Victory -Windridge,Sons & Riley,Ibstock,Leics’,No.17,12-1951,withdrawn 12-1956,scrapped 4-1959.Coomsey.1#
One of two:the other was Chassis No.06617263,Body No.3381, EUP 597,Stockton,No.82;both were wartime unfrozen chassis and had pre-war -
style bodies,but with some utility features. 82 was sold to J.G.Parker,Bradford,3-1951,as a furniture van - it later became a showman’s van,and
was last licensed 9-1954.
Dennis Lancet/1948 Yeates C32F Motorcoach,Chassis No.170163, JU 1000,Leicester,7-1932,new as a Duple -Body No.2937- C32F motorcoach demonstrator,then Edwards,Dinnington,then Ruby Motorcoaches,T.W.Blockley,Heather,Leic’,9-1938.1#
Daimler CD650/Roe H31/25R Double Decker Omnibus,Chassis No.16925,Body No.GO2940, KHP 998,Coventry,1949,Daimler demonstrator.Bought by T.Beckett,Bucknall,Staffordshire,in 1955.Coomsey.1#
Worked un-registered as a demonstrator until January 1951,then registered KHP 998 - a October-November 1950 Coventry registration.
OilTreader,Tuesday,18th December,2018.Page 20,post 21,Yutong.
Yutong City Master 1232,Halfcab,Lefthand Drive,■■■■■■■ ISB6.7E5285B,280 BHP-209 KW,752.32 LBS-FT-1020 NM @ 1200-1800 RPM Diesel-Engined,60-Seat Double Decker Bus,Skopje,Macedonia. Showbus.1#
6-Speed Automatic Transmission.
WIKIPEDIA :-
Dimensions:-
Length
11.8 m (38 ft 9 in)
Width
2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)[citation needed]
Height
3.9 m (12 ft 10 in)
The Yutong City Master is a 2011 model of low-floor double-decker bus that was first designed for JSP Skopje, the public company which has operated bus routes in Skopje since 1948. The bus design is in a “retro” style, similar to London’s AEC Routemaster. A total of 217 have entered service.
In 2010, the government of the Republic of Macedonia ordered 202 double-decker buses from the Chinese manufacturer Yutong, two of which were open top buses with removable roofs to be used by tourists (15 more buses like these were ordered in late 2011) and the remaining 200 as city buses for the capital city of Skopje.
The first open-top buses with removable roofs and 65 transit buses were put into service on 6 September 2011, all under the name City Master. The rest of the buses, as well as another 15 cabriolet buses with removable roofs ordered in late 2011.
The cost of the project is over €41 million which was paid by the Macedonian Government.[1]
Some City Masters also appear in some cities in China such as Guangzhou.[2]
The buses are designed in a “retro” style. Former London double-decker buses were used in Skopje until the 1963 Skopje earthquake in which 75%-80% of the city’s infrastructure was destroyed.
The prototype bus appeared on the streets of Skopje on 1 March 2011, under the name ZK6116HGS.[3] UNQUOTE.
Based on the AEC Routemaster of London Transport. Skopje,Macedonia,Balkan Peninsula,Southeast Europe,one of the successor states
of the former Yugoslavia.
OilTreader,Friday,21st December,2018.Page 21,post 2,Daimler.
Daimler CVD6SD/Weymann B35F Single Decker Bus,Chassis No.14993,Body No.C9323, JFJ 873,2-1950,Exeter,No.173.Shears,Winkleigh. FoundInAAttic-OilTreader.1#
Buzzer,Monday,31st December,2018.Page 22,post 3,Leyland,Southdown.
Leyland N-Model,Normal Control-Bonneted/7-1928 Short O27/24RO Double Decker Open Topper Bus,Chassis No.10975, CD 5125,Brighton,1-1921,Southdown,No.125.Wikimedia.1#
Three more additional Southdown Leyland photographs posted by me now :-
Leyland G7,Normal Control-Bonneted,/12-1928 Short O27/24RO Double Decker Open Topper Bus,Chassis No.12347, CD 7045,Brighton,5-1922,Southdown,No.135.FlickrHiveMind.1#
Leyland Titan TD1/Brush O27/24RO Double Decker Open Topper Bus,Chassis No.70477, UF 4813,Brighton,6-1929,Southdown,No.813.FlickrHiveMind.1#
Leyland Titan TD1,Gardner 5LW Oil-Engined,/1941 ECW Fairground Bus,Chassis No.71983, UF 7430,1931,@ Hampton Court,8-1963.New as Short DD bus,Southdown 930,Wilts & Dorset in 1939,showman F.Annear,Bristol,1953-1965.Flickr.1#
A classic and beautiful fairground bus! 
OilTreader,Saturday,5th January,2019.Page 22,post 10,Leyland Olympian.
Leyland Olympian ONCL10/2RZ/Northern Counties Palatine H49/34F Double Decker Bus,Chassis No.10879 LNo.115,Body No.3826, G129 NRC,Nottingham,8-1989,South Notts,No.129.Nottingham Heritage Vehicles.1#
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Edinburgh Corporation Leyland PD3 with Alexander bodywork and unique front grill by Homalloy of Preston.
Yelloway of Rochdale AEC Reliance 7072 DK seen leaving Cheltenham Coach Station.
bound for Middleton, near Oldham. Picture 2 sees the same coach in its later days
when I believe it had been converted to a Racing Car Transporter and workshop.
Finches Coaches of Wigan acquired 7072 DK when Yelloway sold it on in the mid 1970s,
and I did a few journeys driving it to Horse Racing venues…York, Thirsk, & Uttoxeter.
I think 7072 DK was new about 1962, and for a coach that was 14 years old, it performed
like a new one, It was a pleasure to drive
Ray Smyth:
This Ailsa Volvo bus is seen near the end of Station Road in Wigan, in the early 1980s.
It is painted in the orange and white livery of Greater Manchester Transport.
The second picture is taken from approximately the same spot recently. The engine
in this bus was at the front, immediately to the left of the driver, so it had a drivers
cab door on the offside, reminiscent of thousands of “Half Cab” buses from the past.
Click on 1st picture twice for better image. Ray Smyth.
Below is a picture link to one of the prototype Volvo Ailsa buses delivered to London Transport as V3. As can be seen the bus had two entrances and two staircases. The picture is taken during its unveiling at North Weald bus rally in 2007. I had been part of the team involved in the restoration of this bus during the preceding 12 months. 12 years on I can’t recall a great deal other than it had required new oil seals and gaskets for its non-standard for the type SCG gearbox, and having to drain all the oil out of its leaking and unobtainable front lever arm dampers so that it would pass MOT.
What I do recall clearly follows. I went home Friday night seemingly having finished all that was required for its inaugural surprise public revellation. Apparently on Saturday it was moved out of the workshop for a final wash and polish. That achieved by late morning my fellow henchman Paul found it would not start. IIRC accessing the starter motor on an Ailsa is quite a challenge, but not quite as great a challenge as finding a replacement on a Saturday afternoon. It was not until Sunday afternoon when the much anticipated bus finally arrived, that the full story emerged about Paul’s journey to I think Barnsley, in order to obtain a functioning replacement and its wee small hours re installation.
Ray Smyth:
This Ailsa Volvo bus is seen near the end of Station Road in Wigan, in the early 1980s.
It is painted in the orange and white livery of Greater Manchester Transport.
The second picture is taken from approximately the same spot recently. The engine
in this bus was at the front, immediately to the left of the driver, so it had a drivers
cab door on the offside, reminiscent of thousands of “Half Cab” buses from the past.
Click on 1st picture twice for better image. Ray Smyth.
Hi Ray. I always thought the AILSA bodied chassis looked nice, and was built well. Yes you entered through the cab door. Tayside Regional Council ran a bunch of them with Volvo TD70 engines, one semi-auto S reg, the rest T reg (1979/80) automatic transmissions. Flying machines. City of Cardiff ran some also, but years later.
The latest version posted a few pages back looked superb.
I only drove buses and coaches on the maintenance side, but sat my classs1 PSV in an old Leyland PD2 manual. Spent a lot of time around bus garages in the 70s, my fathers friend married into a family that ran coaches and my cousin did his apprenticeship with Hills of Tredegar.
Never had to pay a fare as I new all the drivers, never had to walk really as someone always gave me a lift, and standing/riding on the step on an empty bus as a young teenager was a bonus.
Great site, thanks for the work you put in to it. Great memories.
Paul
Paul…Thank you for your post, Yes, I also thought it was quite a handsome machine.
Its bodywork was built by Northern Counties, at Enfield Street, just 2 miles from where
you see it in the picture on this page. Northern Counties factory is now a small industrial
estate, home to about 6 companies, and about 500 yards from where I live. Regards, Ray.
oiltreader:
Various.
Oily
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Wallace Arnold, now there’s a fleet name to conjure with. Used to see them everywhere, from Victoria coach station to Scotland to Penzance.
Speaking of old coach companies, I can remember Yelloway, Royal Blue, Southdown, Grey Car and Ribble. I’m sure there were others…
oiltreader:
Various.
Oily
Hello oily ,lovely shots ,especially the AEC with Duple Britannia coachwork ,would that be ex Red Rover Aylesbury ? thank you Trevor
I drove this Leyland Leopard many times during my 2 years with Ribble from early 1968.
ECK 900E, fleet number 900 was a fine machine to drive.
Ray Smyth.
Ray Smyth:
A Liverpool Corporation Bristol RE on the Dock Road in Liverpool.
Pretty sure that is a panther. Dont recall any Re’s with the corpo