Leyland600:
Now this Leyland PD2/12 is a proper bus with stylish Leyland Metal Framed body. I ran one for a while absolute delight to drive. Built in 1953 it is still going strong, I rode on it at the Ribble 100 rallylast year where it handled a full load no bother at all despite its 66 years. Beats a Routemasters in looks and performance any day.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
What Bus ? invisible one ■■
Blue Estate:
Leyland600:
Now this Leyland PD2/12 is a proper bus with stylish Leyland Metal Framed body. I ran one for a while absolute delight to drive. Built in 1953 it is still going strong, I rode on it at the Ribble 100 rally last year where it handled a full load no bother at all despite its 66 years. Beats a Routemasters in looks and performance any day.
Cheers, Leyland 600.What Bus ? invisible one ■■
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Thursday,28th May,2020. VALKYRIE
I think Leyland600 means Leyland Titan PD2/12,RTC 822 
…but I could have got the wrong bus.
The bus,QV below,was photographed at the Ribble Centenary Rally,at the car and motorcoach park of the
Globe Arena in Morecambe,on Sunday,26th May,2019. Ribble Motor Services was founded on Friday,
6th June,1919. In the same year of 1919 James Watkinson began charabanc excursions using Leyland
lorries fitted with Preston Motor Body Building Company charabanc bodies.In 1920 two Daimler CK/
Buckingham CH24 Charabanc’s entered service:Chassis No.3337,CK 3273 and Chassis No.3695,CK 3301;
these used the Scout fleet name.
The Preston-based fleet and and its operations continued to expand,a garage was opened in that Mecca
Of Motorcoaches,Blackpool,in 1928 for example and the company became Scout Motor Services
Limited on Christmas Eve Saturday,24th December,1932. Scout operated certain bus services in the
Preston and Blackpool area,as well as their well-established motorcoach services,including the Blackpool
to London service.
To cut a long story short,Ribble eventually took over Scout on Tuesday,5th December,1961
but continued running Scout as a subsidary company until Friday,25th October,1968 when
Ribble discontinued Scout and its assets were divided between Ribble Motor Services and
W.C.Standerwick. W.C.Standerwick,which had taken over several motorcoach operators over the years,
had been a subsidary company of Ribble since Friday,11th November,1932.
And that gives an explanation why this Leyland Titan PD2/12,RTC 822 is painted in
Scout Motor Services livery! 
Leyland Titan PD2/12/Leyland H31/25R Double Decker Bus,CN.532O77,RTC 822,10-1953,ex-Rawtenstall,No.18.Scout livery.TNUK,OTL-Buses,M & L,53.5-2020.Alan Robson-BlackpoolTram.3#
VALKYRIE
Thats the PD2 I was referring to Valkyrie, cant understand why my posting did not attach to the South Notts photo post. Good photo taken at Morecambe would look better in original livery.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
oiltreader:
Froggy55:
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Found this unique-looking Trader bus on a French forum. Is it a workshop-conversion, maybe built to carry the staff of a Factory?A civil engineering construction company and still going.
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Oily
Oily that’s a memory jerker seeing that bus, in the late 60’s I lost me driving license for six months for motor cycle offences and at the time Kier construction were the main contractors building the new container berths in Southampton docks so I got a job with them and threw myself into working for the six month ban period seven days a week 7am to 7pm, saved loads of money as too knackered to go to pub and spend ought soon as I could ride again I jacked the job in but it was a life saver at the time, Buzzer
Bus chassis from Dennis at Guildford being delivered to Northern Counties Engineering factory
at Enfield Street in Pemberton, Wigan. This factory is now a small industrial estate, and the
Enfield Inn on the right has recently been converted to individual bedsit flats. NMP.
Ray Smyth:
Bus chassis from Dennis at Guildford being delivered to Northern Counties Engineering factory
at Enfield Street in Pemberton, Wigan. This factory is now a small industrial estate, and the
Enfield Inn on the right has recently been converted to individual bedsit flats. NMP.
Ray, more likely to be a DAF chassis given that the company delivering the chassis are from Holland. Northern Counties bodied a lot of SB220’s.
Ray, I guess these are DAF Chassis being delivered. to Northern Counties all Dennis chassis produced especially up to the closure of Northern Counties were delivered by a local company to me with whom I am well acquainted.
Cheers, Leyland 600
Well spotted Dennis and Gerald. I hadn’t noticed that the DAF transporter was Dutch registered.
I should have known that the 2 chassis were also DAF. I remember the bus chassis transporter firm
from Ireby in ■■■■■■■ from near where Gerald lives, dark green lorries, are they still going ?
Cheers, Ray.
Ray Smyth:
Well spotted Dennis and Gerald. I hadn’t noticed that the DAF transporter was Dutch registered.
I should have known that the 2 chassis were also DAF. I remember the bus chassis transporter firm
from Ireby in ■■■■■■■ from near where Gerald lives, dark green lorries, are they still going ?Cheers, Ray.
I still see them regularly travelling up the M6 and M74. The pic is intriguing though and has got my tiny brain working. The silencer does not look like that fitted to any DAF chassis that would normally have been bodied in Wigan so a bit of investigation is required. I guessing that the pic is pre 2000 as after that date the factory would have had Plaxton signage so that gives me something to work on. The chassis also looks like it is not a low floor model so that narrows down the field. I wonder if Plaxton had any DAF coach chassis’ bodied at Wigan between 95 and 2000?
Edit: These are right hand drive DAF SB220GS chassis produced until around 2000. After this the SB220 was introduced in the UK especially for Arriva, who were the dealers in the UK, and badged up as the VDL SB220. The original DAF GS150M engine was replaced by the ■■■■■■■ 6B with the consequent change in exhaust system which was what threw me. For whatever reason it would seem that all the VDL range SB120/200/220 used the ■■■■■■■ engine as opposed to the DAF one. With DAF using this engine in their 45 range I can only assume they had good purchasing terms with ■■■■■■■ and the popularity of the Dennis Dart and Optare Metrorider, which were both fitted with the same 6B engine, would have allowed large fleet operators to consolidate their spares requirements.
Ripponden and District Motors Foden two stroke " half decker " coach. Very rare and interesting vehicle, even if it does look like a cattle lorry !! 
old 67:
Ripponden and District Motors Foden two stroke " half decker " coach. Very rare and interesting vehicle, even if it does look like a cattle lorry !!0
It’s actually an 1952 AEC Regal IV bodied by Mann Egerton. Not unsurprisingly it seems to be a one-off.
Dennis Javelin:
old 67:
Ripponden and District Motors Foden two stroke " half decker " coach. Very rare and interesting vehicle, even if it does look like a cattle lorry !!It’s actually an 1952 AEC Regal IV bodied by Mann Egerton. Not unsurprisingly it seems to be a one-off.
Thanks for spotting my " deliberate 
" error. Ripponden had a couple of these Mann Egerton Crelin bodied coaches and I posted the wrong photo. 
Here IS their Foden , along with an advert. featuring the actual AEC one they ran.
Regards John.
old 67:
Dennis Javelin:
old 67:
Ripponden and District Motors Foden two stroke " half decker " coach. Very rare and interesting vehicle, even if it does look like a cattle lorry !!It’s actually an 1952 AEC Regal IV bodied by Mann Egerton. Not unsurprisingly it seems to be a one-off.
Thanks for spotting my " deliberate
Here IS their Foden , along with an advert. featuring the actual AEC one they ran.
Regards John.
That is one weird looking body - I can’t believe they ordered more than one!! Someone must have got a back hander for this 
This was its sister
I worked at Ripponden and District for 33 years from 1964. Although they sold the coach part of their business to Hebble Motors in 1957, I worked with a lot of men who used to drive the coaches. They had a very mixed fleet of chassis types, and also seemed to favour bodies by some of the less well known makers. One such example being on the photo you posted, which I believe was built by Whiston. Here is photo of a similar one Ripponden owned.
And one that passed to Hebble
Regards John
old 67:
I worked at Ripponden and District for 33 years from 1964. Although they sold the coach part of their business to Hebble Motors in 1957, I worked with a lot of men who used to drive the coaches. They had a very mixed fleet of chassis types, and also seemed to favour bodies by some of the less well known makers. One such example being on the photo you posted, which I believe was built by Whiston. Here is photo of a similar one Ripponden owned.1
And one that passed to Hebble
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Regards John
Hi John,
The Hebble pic is of the same bus that I posted so it looks like all they did was add their fleetname. I actually think that it’s a quite futuristic looking coach compared to a lot of the bodies that were being produced in the early 50’s. The front could be mistaken for the Bova’s from the 80’s onwards and it appears quite streamlined. The first pic is also a Whiston body but from 1950 and appears a little more flat faced than the 1952 variant. Do you have any info on Whiston’s as they are a new name to me and Google is showing nothing?
It was James Whiston I do believe. I think I have a photo of a Rutland coach with a Whiston body, operated by Spiers of Henley on Thames. I’ll try and find it.
Hi Dennis. Do you know who owned LWT 147 when the photo you posted was taken? It is not in Ripponden livery. I can’t imagine it would have been very sought after when Hebble had done with it !! Ripponden coaches were blue and cream, Hebble repainted them red and cream.
Talking of strange looking Ripponden coaches,look at this beauty !! It’s one of the few Ripponden vehicles I know nothing about, any body heip with information please ?
Regards John.
