Two unfortunate MB O302s somewhere in Afghanistan
An East Kent Morris Commercial Imperial in Ashford on the long route 10 from Folkestone to Maidstone
1950 Foden with Metalcraft bodywork.
Oily
Same chassis and bodybuilder but all different colour schemes. An Eastern Scottish Lodekka turning right, Alexander’s (Midland) Lodekka turning left and bringing up the rear a Central SMT Lodekka. Courtesy of James from the Urban Glasgow forum.
Dennis Javelin:
Same chassis and bodybuilder but all different colour schemes. An Eastern Scottish Lodekka turning right, Alexander’s (Midland) Lodekka turning left and bringing up the rear a Central SMT Lodekka. Courtesy of James from the Urban Glasgow forum.
In 1958 when at Alexander’s Grangemouth Depot a regular shift was Bo’ness to Glasgow and back to Falkirk Callander Riggs bus station then a couple of Falkirk/Grangemouth round the houses and my first and only shot on a Bristol Lodekka brand new on it’s first day, coming off an AEC Reliance and onto to that was painful, the heavy steering and clutch and the odd rake of the steering wheel, the one part shift, enough.
Oily
cav551:
An East Kent Morris Commercial Imperial in Ashford on the long route 10 from Folkestone to Maidstone
Were they the model that the complete engine and gearbox could be wheeled out with the axle and radiator for repair, seemed a good idea to me?
Pete.
Here’s another Dennis, Glasgow’s last Green Goddess tram, Bradford registration on the Elliott of York lorry wonder who used to own it, perhaps Ramone will remember it. 
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Bought by a preservation society in Liverpool. The following links may be of interest to some:
lupts.org.uk/LUPTShist06.htm
488.cyberpictures.net/1055.html
A " Green Goddess " Liverpool Corporation tram on East Prescot Road ( A57 ) passing
Knotty Ash railway station on its route to Page Moss, Huyton. Just about 1 mile ahead
of the tram is where Ken Dodd lived, 76 Thomas Lane. The Leyland Octopus appears
to be British Road Services. NMP.
An aerial shot of the old Killermont St and Dundas St bus termini in Glasgow. Killermont St in the foreground was used mainly by Eastern Scottish and Central SMT with Dundas St (on the right) being the city centre base for Alexander’s buses. Dundas St was also the departure point for the overnight Glasgow - London service operated by Western SMT. The land behind Killermont St was the old goods yard of Buchanan St railway station and is now the main bus terminus in the city being used by a wide of variety of operators.
Arriva bus departing the bus station in the centre of Wigan.
This Volvo is in the deep red livery of Ribble Motor Services
of fifty years ago. Picture quality not very good on this dull
miserable day. 3/11/2020. Ray Smyth.
fredm:
oiltreader:
In good nick.
OilyI worked on LT as a bus driver for 8 yrs in the 80s out of west ham garage which is now a housing estate they did give a road in said estate the name of “routemaster way” which made me chuckle , the garage was very near canning town east london it was a large garage with about 15 routes, of course I drove the RMs which were a perfect vehicle for the job designed by LT and AEC they were a very easy bus to drive as long as you got a good one some had slipping gears and dodgy power steering, I started my psv training out of chiswick depot a huge place where the famous skid pan was my first training bus was a DM similar to the atlantean , this was 82 I think they had stopped the skid test as I was told a DM had gone straight into a building , funny enough on the Q&A papers they gave you to fill in one was “is it fact that a DM bus is bad in the wet” which they bloody were horrible things really. we did however do cadence braking training on the skid pan, after a week I was moved to another instructor who was based at seven kings garage much closer to my home as I had a 2 hour journey on the district line every day to get to chiswick. my new instructor had a RMA which was a routemaster but had been an airbus hence the A, these had been painted in BEA colours and took people to heathrow with a trailer on the back for the luggage they never had platform at the back but one opening door at the front, this new instructor never thought much of lorry drivers and would often call them “so called profesional drivers” I used to bite my lip as I needed the work as there was a bad recession going on then, however oneday going along oxford street we saw a bus drive go over a very high kerb on a centre island to get past another bus so I had to repeat his remark to him , anyway 3 weeks training passed my test and spent 5 yrs driving RMs then the garage went one man so then spent 3 yrs driving leyland titans and LS single deckers the titans were lovely to drive the LS would bounce all over the place . I should point out I am not a fan of buses or coaches old lorries are my thing but I have read this thread with great interest , a driver at the garage owned with his mate an LT a RM brought from a company up north dont know the name well got a contract to run a vintage bus from burnham station to a transport museum in burnham on crouch and when LT was broke he started blue triangle bus company and won lots of routes and eventually sold the company for a lot of money to I think stagecoach.well in 89 I had enough of the buses and went back lorry driver although I jacked that after a row with the boss and worked for grey green driving a bus on my old routes they had clapped out DMs which Ithink came from sheffield which had to be driven in manual which for those who dont know its only a 3 inch to move but was a pain, but on the late shift on route 173 which ran the length of the a13 to dagenham they put on new scania double deckers which were flyers just as well with the running time given on the late runs these scanias werelovely to drive fully auto no feelof the gears changing and 60 or 70 mph no probs, but I only worked there for 2 weeks while waiting for another lorry job. oOn LT back then many garages had a show bus which the engineers took to shows allover these buses had to work though our one was I am sure RM38 it would go out on morning rush hour for 3 or 4 hrs then the evening rush hour again for 3 or 4 hrs, it was immaculate every bit of brass or copper under the bonnet was polished and they had fitted a diff from an airbus so it would do 60 mph now LT made them pay for this diff never just gave it to them shame as the bus advertied LT and when I pulled into victoria bus station on route 25 it would draw a lot of attention , I wonder what became of those show buses, sorry to go on chaps but trying to recall what I can, I have to say when I worked on the crew buses with a conductor it was just like the reg varney show on the buses lots and lots of laughs and fiddles but thats another story
You are talking about Roger Wright, who sold out to go ahead, he still owns RM in Kent I believe was Charlie the friend.
Yet another Metalcraft bodied Foden and looks to be rear engined. All credit to SCP for the photo.
Oily
