Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[pyewacket947v]

Froggy55:
Everything about the 1929 Versare Street Monster here:
coachbuilt.com/bui/v/versare/versare.htm

Certainly worth while going through this article!

Thanks a great link, thanks.

[pyewacket947v]

pyewacket947v:

Froggy55:
Everything about the 1929 Versare Street Monster here:
coachbuilt.com/bui/v/versare/versare.htm

Certainly worth while going through this article!

Thanks a great link, thanks.

Just to add to the Leyland PSV theme, thats me, long ago wheeling a BCT Leyland Tiger.
The pic was taken by C Cooper at Selly Oak depot in the 60s

[oiltreader]

Froggy55:
Everything about the 1929 Versare Street Monster here:
coachbuilt.com/bui/v/versare/versare.htm

Certainly worth while going through this article!

Great article Froggy55,thank you a real inventive dedication in them early years and today the motor industry is now turning the clock back with hybrids on more or less the same principal.
Oily

[oiltreader]

Thanks to DEANB, Ray Smyth and pyewacket947v for the pics a quote from my first post on this thread “if it has driven wheels and carries or pulls a load, let us see it” and buses did just that, my time on the buses taught me a lot including discipline with regard to time keeping and being smartly turned out. A tip for a lasting crease in the trousers, inside out, run a soap bar down the crease, outside return, damp cloth and iron, razor sharp A few tales come to mind, one to be going on with, at Oxford I did a few shifts with a canny Geordie clippie with instructions along the lines, we’ll leave the terminus late, this was morning people going to work time, that meant by the time we got to the city centre, the bus was packed to the gunnels, standing room only downstairs, Charlie struggling(intentional) to collect fares, didn’t bother going upstairs at all, so city centre and our canny man stood on the platform collecting fares, a few tickets issued, bonanza, why aye man we’ll gan and have a brew .
Oily

[oiltreader]

Dumpers.
Oily

[leyland600]

Hi Ray, Now that is a quality motor, my friend who lived in Penrith at the time 1976-78 acquired identical 1466 which we repainted here in my lorry garage at Wigton. A good bus with only one fault the rear electically operated sliding doors would never work despite several attempt to sort them out. It eventually went down to Maidstone & District under Roger Davies care then had the cab door changed to a slider and an open platform fitted. It was butchered further and was sold to a guy in Belgium for wedding hires however it appeared for sale recently in a Bus & Coach magazine.
Cheers, Leyland 600

[leyland600]

Hi oily, Aye you could have some good fun on the buses, I worked on Ribble at Carlisle in 1963-4 driving full fronted Leyland PD3s with front sliding doors and a large bonnet acroos to the nearside. There was a route which terminated at Carleton on the A6 just prior to turning into the BRS depot and Fodens Carlisle depot. You had to reverse into a narrow lane off the busy A6 no motorway then as you know and how busy it was. Revesing into this narrow lane signposted Garlands was no picnic but we all managed from 5-30am to 11-00 pm come hail rain and snow. I had an elderly conductress who on the early shift always had her shopping bag with a flask of coffee and two cups for use on very cold winter mornings set out on the bonnet. The coffee was very well laced with rum I often wonder how I managed a straight course back into town. Happy days no breathallizer then.
Cheers Leyland 600 hic11

[punchy_dan]

saw this today ,the driver said its a 1989 vintage ,sounded like a V6 ?

[punchy_dan]

[dave_docwra]

Punchy Dan:
saw this today ,the driver said its a 1989 vintage ,sounded like a V6 ?

Sounded a bit poorly then

[chris_webb]

Punchy Dan:
0saw this today ,the driver said its a 1989 vintage ,sounded like a V6 ?

Looks like Canton Valais in Switzerland Dan,going by the VS Valais plate on the Merc.

[punchy_dan]

Chris Webb:

Punchy Dan:
0saw this today ,the driver said its a 1989 vintage ,sounded like a V6 ?

Looks like Canton Valais in Switzerland Dan,going by the VS Valais plate on the Merc.

yep Reckingen to be precise Chris .

[chris_webb]

Punchy Dan:

Chris Webb:

Punchy Dan:
0saw this today ,the driver said its a 1989 vintage ,sounded like a V6 ?

Looks like Canton Valais in Switzerland Dan,going by the VS Valais plate on the Merc.

yep Reckingen to be precise Chris .

So will you be going on the Furka Oberalp meter guage railway? I’ve been on some in Switzerland but not that one.

[punchy_dan]

Had chance Chris but went the other way towards brig on the train ,looked across at the furkapass though,looks like the Mrs has comment on this too !

[chris_webb]

Punchy Dan:
0Had chance Chris but went the other way towards brig on the train ,looked across at the furkapass though,looks like the Mrs has comment on this too !

Aye,a bit more interesting than Woodhead,Snake,Cat,Congleton and Peak Forest.
We have been by train to Jungfraujoch about four times,the other side of where the Furka Oberalp is.Had many holidays in Switzerland,always used the trains,love the country.We went through Brig and the Simplon Tunnel from Montreux to Stresa Italia a few years ago.

[punchy_dan]

Climbing up from Ryder point to my house brings the fan in at 40 tonne

[chris_webb]

Punchy Dan:
Climbing up from Ryder point to my house brings the fan in at 40 tonne

Le Col du Middleton?

[deanb]

AEC coaches from 1966.

Click on pages twice.

[punchy_dan]

Chris Webb:

Punchy Dan:
Climbing up from Ryder point to my house brings the fan in at 40 tonne

Le Col du Middleton?

Ya das ist sehr gut

[chris_webb]

Punchy Dan:

Chris Webb:

Punchy Dan:
Climbing up from Ryder point to my house brings the fan in at 40 tonne

Le Col du Middleton?

Ya das ist sehr gut

Danke Lastwagenfahrer (I think) .