This AEC Regent 111 from 1954 is the first of about 15 buses that Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport
introduced into their large fleet without being painted. Some people said that it was to test the quality of
the modern aluminium panelling, others said that it was to save money, not having to repaint their buses every
few years. The fleet number of this bus, with bodywork by Saunders-Roe of Anglesey is A40, one of 100 buses
introduced in 1954, fleet number A39 was from the same bodybuilder, whereas the remainder of the 100 were
bodied by Crossley, AEC A40 is still with us.
This AEC Regent 111 from 1954 is fleet number A39 which I mentioned in the above post.
A39 and A40 were the only two AEC buses bodied by Saunders Roe of Anglesey for the
large fleet of Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport. Not my picture.
22 March 1990
ex BCT Depot
Harborne Lane
Selly Oak
Birmingham
West Mids
Eng
‘Elp,i’m lost’.
PKH 485P. A ERF B series of PVS of Barnsley . Getting ready to haul away a WMPTE double decker.
I imagine its a Daimler Fleetline. This was scrap vehicle recovery at its most entertaining.
These lads knew their job and took no prisoners in doing it.
I worked at this depot for 12 years under the BCT. Just hidden from view by the ERFs front end is the metal cover
over the underground waste oil where old engine oil was disposed of, until it was collected by BCTs own 4x2 waste
tanker. A Austin or Bedford normal control motor, usually driven by a lad named Garth…
pyewacket947v:
22 March 1990
ex BCT Depot
Harborne Lane
Selly Oak
Birmingham
West Mids
Eng
‘Elp,i’m lost’.
PKH 485P. A ERF B series of PVS of Barnsley . Getting ready to haul away a WMPTE double decker.
I imagine its a Daimler Fleetline. This was scrap vehicle recovery at its most entertaining.
These lads knew their job and took no prisoners in doing it.
I worked at this depot for 12 years under the BCT. Just hidden from view by the ERFs front end is the metal cover
over the underground waste oil where old engine oil was disposed of, until it was collected by BCTs own 4x2 waste
tanker. A Austin or Bedford normal control motor, usually driven by a lad named Garth…
Trams, Austin taxi cabs, and buses at the Pier Head, Liverpool in the 1950s.
From memory, the trams finished toward the end of 1955. This tram, fleet
number 950 was one of many 8 wheeled double bogie vehicles, and I believe
they weighed between 15 and 16 tons, unladen. Picture from Bootle Forum.
Probably because they are likely to be family men or women, work locally and garner more local support because they are known. Compare a local bus route with a trip with a long-haul TIR driver’s itinery. I’ve done it: I drove for Gist in Faversham on what I considered to be local bus routes in between long-haul trips to the Arabian Gulf or North Africa. Apart from the steering wheel bit, they were entirely different careers!
In the late 1940s, following the end of World War 2, most bus fleets needed to replace buses because of
being unable to obtain new vehicles during the war, and the loss of some due to the bombing of towns
and cities. Liverpool Corporation managed to obtain bus chassis from AEC, Crossley, Daimler, Guy, & Leyland.
These two buses are from 100 Daimlers purchased in 1947/48. The Daimler at the front is one of 50 that were
frame bodied by Weymann, and completed at the Corporation bodybuilding works at Edge Lane, Liverpool.
The Daimler at the rear is one of 50 that received complete bodywork by Northern Counties in Wigan. NMP.
A new Daimler with bodywork by Northern Counties of Wigan,
delivered to Liverpool Corporation toward the end of the 1940s.
Picture by Senior Transport Archive in " Northern Counties " book.
22 March 1990
Harborne Lane
Selly Oak
Birmingham
West Mids
Eng
KFU 813P a sister B series ERF 4x2 to ‘I’m am lost’ in the background.
Same outfit ,PVS of Barnsley with another dead WMPTE Daimler Fleetline.
This ex BCT Depot is now a storage facility.
