A smart & useful piece of kit with the beavertail.
oiltreader:
Thanks to Buzzer, Ray Smyth and DEANB for the pics
Oily
It’ll be a 300, Oily. Don’t want to spoil these drivers with racing engines! 
I would guess it’s a DAF
tyneside:
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Thanks for the photo tyneside 1935 eh brilliant, 17 years later I was driving a similar van and muscle building on pianos 
Oily
This is one I used to drive whilst working for Imperial Tobacco in Nottingham as a yard Shunter before being made redundant in April 2016
It was a Kelmac fitted with a ■■■■■■■
oiltreader:
DEANB:
Who knows what make this is ?1
Cheers for the pic Dean
Oily
Serious bit of undercover investigation there Eddie 
Bet you were a right swat at School Chris
oiltreader:
tyneside:
.Thanks for the photo tyneside 1935 eh brilliant, 17 years later I was driving a similar van and muscle building on pianos
Oily
Remember shifting the odd piano for the village chapel in on of the cattle waggons. tyneside
Hi Tyneside a good photo of a Sunderland & District Omnibus Co (Philadelphia) Leyland Tige Cub with Saunders Roe body built at Beamaris Anglesey followed by a Northern Leyland and a United Bristol KSW at the back of the queue. Pity the photo was not in colour as the SDO livery of very dark blue and ivory looked superb. I bet it took those guys laying tram tracks on the bridge a lot less time per 100 yards than it took them in Edinburgh in recent years.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
tyneside:
oiltreader:
tyneside:
.Thanks for the photo tyneside 1935 eh brilliant, 17 years later I was driving a similar van and muscle building on pianos
OilyRemember shifting the odd piano for the village chapel in on of the cattle waggons. tyneside
Saturday was favourite for house removals with a livestock lorry. Guess whose job it was to make the thing pristine on a Friday night? Not my favourite job, especially in the winter when freezing water would inevitably splash all over me. Then clean overalls next morning to move someone’s furniture, including sacks of coal and logs to their next home, probably all of a mile away! I made sure the kettle and the “makings” were on the back of the load!
Hi Tyneside, The bus coming off the Redheugh Bridge is a 1960 / 61 AEC Reliance with Alexander dual purpose 44 seat bodywork one of four supplied at that time, it appears to have lost a digit off the number plate as they were regidtered MCN 990-993.
Cheers Leyland 600.
Leyland600:
Hi Tyneside a good photo of a Sunderland & District Omnibus Co (Philadelphia) Leyland Tige Cub with Saunders Roe body built at Beamaris Anglesey followed by a Northern Leyland and a United Bristol KSW at the back of the queue. Pity the photo was not in colour as the SDO livery of very dark blue and ivory looked superb. I bet it took those guys laying tram tracks on the bridge a lot less time per 100 yards than it took them in Edinburgh in recent years.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
Hi Leyland 600, you sure have an encyclopaedic knowledge of buses, thanks for the info.
Got to agree the SDO livery was smart. IIRC the South Shields Corporation buses were similar. Think they all disappeared into the Northern undertaking.
The bus on the photo is the 39 which ran from Worswick st. Station In Newcastle to Houghton le Spring via Washington. It had to be a single decker to get through the low bridge at Penshaw.
The Philadelphia bus depot is still standing ( next to the old NCB complex) but has been empty for a few years now. The workshops were split into smaller units but only one is occupied now by a tyre company and a hand car wash operates on the front yard.
I think the whole area is scheduled for redevelopment.
Tyneside