Thanks to Leyland 600, Punchy Dan and DEANB for the pics 
and all the other craic
One or two familiar to Leyland 600.
Oily
Hi Oily it will be 56 years on 24 August since I started my driving career as a slightly inexperienced 21 year old on a mouth organ fronted Leyland Comet with 3 decks of sheep hauling from Cockermouth mart to Banbury when Jim Lawson gave me the opportunity to become a lorry driver. 9 hours each way back loading straw in the container from a farm near Gaydon, lang days and neets but no tachos to worry about just log sheets a pencil and a good rubber. Prior experience driving an ex Carlisle State Management Brewery Guy Wolf occasionally for a local market gardener to Newcastle fruit market with lettuce and celery plus a trip one Friday night accompanying Alec Boyes senior in his Thames Trader to the BRS Highbridge depot in Somerset with Quaker Oats and straight back home as a relief driver with A.D. due to the regular driver chickening out being a Friday night.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
Leyland600:
Hi Oily it will be 56 years on 24 August since I started my driving career as a slightly inexperienced 21 year old on a mouth organ fronted Leyland Comet with 3 decks of sheep hauling from Cockermouth mart to Banbury when Jim Lawson gave me the opportunity to become a lorry driver. 9 hours each way back loading straw in the container from a farm near Gaydon, lang days and neets but no tachos to worry about just log sheets a pencil and a good rubber. Prior experience driving an ex Carlisle State Management Brewery Guy Wolf occasionally for a local market gardener to Newcastle fruit market with lettuce and celery plus a trip one Friday night accompanying Alec Boyes senior in his Thames Trader to the BRS Highbridge depot in Somerset with Quaker Oats and straight back home as a relief driver with A.D. due to the regular driver chickening out being a Friday night.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
Hi Leyland 600. You & I are Qvery much alike I started driving wagons in 1956, Then in 1957 I went on to driving a 3 wheeler mechanical horse on Newcastle Quayside,for Baxters Road Sercices They got fired back up in 1953 When denantionliasion came about, It was all hand ball off the docks but the pay was decent with loads of blob if one wanted it, Which I did having a young family to look after, take things hard for drivers was hard graft in those days, Working with Dockers who were IMO All R,Soles They did their level best to make things hard for decent hard working drivers, I often wondered for what reason the lazy ■■■■■ got paid if they worked on not, Not like us old school men who gave their best in all aspects, IMOO, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
It was all hand ball off the docks but the pay was decent with loads of blob if one wanted it, Which I did having a young family to look after, take things hard for drivers was hard graft in those days, Working with Dockers who were IMO All R,Soles They did their level best to make things hard for decent hard working drivers, I often wondered for what reason the lazy [zb] got paid if they worked on not, Not like us old school men who gave their best in all aspects, IMOO, Regards Larry.
You’re right there Larry, but it wasn’t Newcastle dockers who were my betes noirs, Liverpool and London filled that niche very neatly. Removing 40 ft square sheets from 14 ft high loads of cartoned Raleigh bikes, then scrambling up on top to tumble each stack to the ground before climbing back down to stack them on pallets. No help, just a miserable creature with a clip board, the ever present checker. Next time I was there I had one box, kept me waiting all day, wouldn’t let me lift it off because they wanted the job. Much was good about our free and easy job in those days, but tips like that with those blokes are well to be behind us.
DEANB:
AEC coaches from 1966.Click on pages twice.
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The kind of coaches which, together with the Bedford VAL, drove us to Porchester Bath (now an Art Gallery, I think) in the late 60s.
Just found this on my usual French forum. A Guy bus, but what about its very special body?
0Would any of you have an idea concerning this French-registrated LHD double-decker? Looks a polyester-bodied replica to me.
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imperiale-marie-antoinette.fr/ (Sorry, useless at adding links…)
Apparently it is the “creation” of a Champagne producer for promoting her brand. I did not read the whole site through but does not appear to offer any technical insight.
Hi froggy this Guy Arab was bodied by Mann Egerton of Norwich to a Crellin Duplex patent .They built a few of this type of half decks on Leyland Royal Tigers, AEC Regals and Foden PV chassis.
Cheers Leyland 600.
Dipster:
0Would any of you have an idea concerning this French-registrated LHD double-decker? Looks a polyester-bodied replica to me.
imperiale-marie-antoinette.fr/ (Sorry, useless at adding links…)
Apparently it is the “creation” of a Champagne producer for promoting her brand. I did not read the whole site through but does not appear to offer any technical insight.
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Thanks! An Englishman was definitely needed to solve this mystery!
Leyland600:
Hi froggy this Guy Arab was bodied by a firm called Crellin Duplex who built a few of this type of half decks on Leyland Royal Tigers, AC Regals and Foden PV chassis.
Cheers Leyland 600.
Thanks! Any idea where did these Crellin Duplex buses run?
They remind me this bodywork achieved by Becquet on a Bernard chassis (c.1945-50).
