essexpete:
The photo with the Big J, Comet an Octopus shows the rapid style change. Have I got the models right?
Would the ERF SWB bulker be a conversion? I guess that would have been duck out of water on anything but hard surfaces or would the mid axle lift slightly?
The ‘Octopus’ is actually a Bristol HA, though it may well have had the same engine as went in the Leyland Octopus (0.600). Bristols were only ever built new exclusively for the nationalised BRS after 1948. Nationalised bus companies were also allowed Bristol buses and coaches.
EDIT to say: They appear only to have been supplied with Leyland 0.600 (and later 0.680) engines or Gardner 6LW (and later 6LX) straight-six engines. Though somewhere I’m sure there was one with an AEC in it - a transplant perhaps!