Toddy2:
oiltreader:
Various destinations.
OilyA friend of mine owns that ex Southend Corporation Leyland PD3 - it is on display in Canvey Transport Museum
This is a sister to the one in the photo,
Looks like Rectory rd railway bridge Hawkwell near Southend.
Steve.
pollystag:
0Toddy2:
1oiltreader:
Various destinations.
OilyA friend of mine owns that ex Southend Corporation Leyland PD3 - it is on display in Canvey Transport Museum
This is a sister to the one in the photo,
Looks like Rectory rd railway bridge Hawkwell near Southend.
Steve.
I know that bridge, side turning beside the bridge, ex wife worked at the Kennels there for a while
Lawrence Dunbar:
Taken in Malta, 1979, Regards Larry.
The bus was on an Indiana chassis with local Maltese bodywork.
Indiana Trucks were produced in the US from 1911 to the late 1930s.
For the first 9 years Indianas were built by Harwood-Barley Manufacturing Co., but in 1920 became the Indiana Truck Corporation. In 1928, the company was taken over by Brockway, but because of the Depression, Brockway were forced to sell Indiana to the White Motor Co. and production was moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Between 1936 and Indiana’s demise in 1939, assembly of Indianas was undertaken in the UK by Indiana Sales of Wolverhampton.
(Historical text from ‘The World Encyclopedia of Trucks’ by Peter J Davies; published by Hermes House).
TROOPER2:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Taken in Malta, 1979, Regards Larry.
0The bus was on an Indiana chassis with local Maltese bodywork.
Indiana Trucks were produced in the US from 1911 to the late 1930s.
For the first 9 years Indianas were built by Harwood-Barley Manufacturing Co., but in 1920 became the Indiana Truck Corporation. In 1928, the company was taken over by Brockway, but because of the Depression, Brockway were forced to sell Indiana to the White Motor Co. and production was moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Between 1936 and Indiana’s demise in 1939, assembly of Indianas was undertaken in the UK by Indiana Sales of Wolverhampton.
(Historical text from ‘The World Encyclopedia of Trucks’ by Peter J Davies; published by Hermes House).
Looks like a Bedford OB to me. Did Indiana send their chassis to Bedford to be cabbed, mudguarded and bonneted before sending CKD to Malta to be locally bus-bodied?
It is a Bedford cab IMO Plus it had a 6 cyl 27 HP Bedford engine, I had a chat with the driver while having a ride on it, Regards Larry.
this is a really good book on malta buses, got it in a bookshop in sliema years ago, gives the entire history of malta buses up to around 1980 . more or less all of the older buses were dogs dinners of bits, chassis from all over the place , and never rely on a makers badge, what it says on the outside probably wont be whats making it go.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Also taken in Malta. Regards Larry.0
according to my book 3181 was a Commer with Brincat bodywork
tony
Lawrence Dunbar:
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3037 was a Thames with Barbara bodywork. my book has shed loads of malta buses photos with their reg chassis make and who the bodybuilder was.
tony
Well thats very good info, I spent two weeks in Malta on holiday of course, I spoke to one of their bus drivers who had a Commer cabbed bus, But he reckoned originaly it was a Hoults furniture van, It didnt have the Commer cab, But he said it was completely rebuilt with odds and sods from other vehicles, Clever stuff IMO. Regards Larry.
