Cascaded LT RT152 HLW 139 and RTL125 KGK 789 in A1 Service at Ardrossan in August 1959.

Bournemouth Corporation bus
This 1956 shot taken with my trusty (sic) Brownie 127 features fleet No. 259 with registration NLJ 269. It’s a Leyland Royal Tiger PSU1/13 with Burlingham B41D bodywork which was renumbered as fleet No. 91 in1958 and subsequently, in 1960, lost its rear platform in 1960 when it was rebuilt to B42F.

This handsome open-top vehicle, Guy Arab FRU 233 with fleet No. 39, is depicted at Pier Approach Bournemouth in August 1956 whilst working on route 12 to Hengistbury Head with a trolleybus visible in the background.

A Dennis Loline with no ownership identification but possibly belonging to Reading Corporation at an Earls Court Commercial Motor Show. The single-decker next to it is a Bedford SB with a Strachans body. My thanks go to Maurice Bateman and Stuart Bell for dispelling my ignorance where non-LT material is concerned.

AEC Renown 8071ML & Bridgemaster 228MK owned by G. W. Osborne are flanked by a Leyland PD2 EUH 961 at Colchester. Maurice Bateman informs me that the PD2 was an ex Western Welsh bus in service with Blackwell's of Earls Colne and used on their service to Halstead.

Grahams Bus Service Daimler Fleet No. 60.

A newly painted Guy Arab but with no visible ownership markings. Neville Posnett has kindly investigated thie background to this image and informs us all as follows:

The bus is a Wolverhampton Corporation Guy Arab III with Park Royal 54 seat double deck body from the 539-560 batch (FJW539-560) built in 1949/50. It would have been freshly painted in the distinctive green/custard yellow colour. I believe it is standing in the entrance/exit to the Cleveland Road bodyshop where vehicles were overhauled.
Neville further states that Wolverhampton Transport's Guy Arab III's were unusual in having preselector gearboxes (assisting ex trolley bus drivers of the town) and also specified a sliding door for the driver.

Hants & Dorset Bristol LD6B/ECW pre-production Lodekka LRU 67, fleet No. 1337, at Bournemouth in August 1956.

Hants & Dorset open-topper BTR 310 at Bournemouth in 1956

"GRU 857 is Hants & Dorset 648, a 1947 Bristol L6G with Beadle coach body. It was converted for bus use (when the large bus-type destination indicator was fitted) in 1953 and was scrapped in 1959. Service 7 ran to Bournemouth via the Sandbanks Ferry, and although you can’t see it clearly on your photo, the lower body behind the rear axle would have been cut away slightly to reduce the risk of grounding on the ramp." It was taken by yours truly in August 1956 at a bus stop near Swanage Pier. Historical notes by Michael Wadman.

Hants & Dorset open-topper JT 9353 at Lymington

GPU 432. Probably Hants & Dorset. The likely location is Bournemouth in 1956

Leeds City Transport variety with two AEC Regents of different vintages and a Leyland PD2 evident at the bus station in 1954.

The old Leeds Central bus station in 1954. West Riding Automobile Company of Wakefield Guy Arab Mk.IV with low bridge Roe bodywork built in Leeds.

Leeds bus station in July/August 1954 sees an immaculate NNW 494 AEC Regent basking in the sun in the summer of 1954.

Leyland PD2 UUA 203 at Leeds City bus station in 1954.

This image was taken from a contact print whose origin was a picture taken by my father on his honeymoon in 1926. The location, not greatly changed to this day, is Chard. "The vehicle is probably an AEC Y-type; National had lots of these, some of which they bought new, some second-hand from the LGOC, and some were former WD chassis that they reconditioned and rebodied. However the same type of body and radiator was also fitted to some ex-WD Dennis chassis so it might be one of them." Historical background supplied by Michael Wadman.

Circa 1960 view of 1948-built Doncaster Corporation Roe bodied Daimler CVD6 FDT 827 bearing fleet No. 104 which was withdrawn from service in 1965.

Craven bodied RT1436 was sold in 1956 to Birds of Stratford-on-Avon who subsequently sold it to Kerr & Linney's A1 Service. It's depicted here near the seafront at Ardrossan in August 1959.

Former LT RTL 135 - KGK 799 - had found its way into service with A1 when snapped, not all that skilfully, by yours truly at Ardrossan in August 1959.

Wakes of Sparkford owned three double deckers at the time that this shot was taken in August 1956 but the location isn't recalled. This vehicle is a Bristol K6A/ECW L55R originally owned by Bristol Tramways & Carriage Co. Ltd and arrived at Wakes in 1960.

The May 1966 HCVC rally produced this oddity in the form of former London ransport RLH 41 - MXX241 - in the livery of uts owner Super Coaches of Upminster but bearing a LT indicator blind for route 230 to Wealdstone.

Cardiff 365 (TUH 365) is an unusual AEC Bridgemaster built with a rear entrance Park Royal 68-seat body. Corporation.

CRD 260 is a Reading Corporation AEC Regent Mk 2 of 1947 vintage and is depicted in incelement weather as it departs from Reading General station in 1955 or 56.

Cascaded ex London Transport Park Royal RTL5 in service with OK Motor Services in Bishop Auckland.

Cascaded ex London Transport Park Royal RTW218 in service with Stephenson's of High Ethelerley, Co Durham and on the service to Evenwood operated jointly with OK Motor Services, Lockeys and Anderson who traded as Bluebelle. Thank you to Maurice Bateman for all the supporting data.

St. Helens type AEC RT - BDJ 70 - in service with Norfolk of Nayland and captured on film at Colchester circa 1965.

Southdown Leyland GCD 355

Both vehicles are Leylands and depicted at Pool Valley, Brighton. The bus on the left, EUF 159, is a Park Royal H54R bodied Titan of 1937 vintage. The delightful veteran on the right, UF 4821, is a Brush-bodied Titan TD1 from 1929.

A Southern National LS5G, fleet No. 1703 with reg. No. OTT 57 in August 1956.I took the picture and the location is Weymouth bus station..

Southern Vectis Bristol K, CDL 899, at Newport in 1955.

"It's Southern Vectis fleet number 404 and I took it in August 1955. "Southern Vectis 404 is DL 9014, a 1934 Dennis Ace with Harrington body. These vehicles were colloquially known as “Flying Pigs” for obvious reasons. When you photographed it in August 1955 it had already been withdrawn from service (in December 1954) and it was sold for use as a garden shed in February 1956." Historical notes by Michael Wadman.

Southern Vectis CDL 605 in 1955.

Wilts and Dorset double-decker with registration JO 5401. I took this shot of fleet No. 441 in 1954 whilst it was working on route 9 to Alresford and it's probable that the location is Basingstoke. "JO 5401 was an AEC Regent with Brush body new to City of Oxford MS in 1932. It was acquired by Venture Ltd of Basingstoke in 1940, by which time it had been rebodied with a Park Royal body. In 1948 it was rebodied again, this time with a 1945 East Lancs body. Venture was by this time part of the Red & White group, which sold its bus interests to the BTC in 1950. Venture was put under the control of, and in 1951 taken over by, Wilts & Dorset, and JO 5401 became W&D 441. It was sold for scrap in November 1954, so you caught it in its last days." Historical background by Michael Wadman.

A line-up of Wilts & Dorset single-deckers in 1956. The Amport & District coach on the right is also of interest.

CTR 59? Newbury? 1954.

FLH332

Bournemouth FRU 103

Beatons

Canadian Coach Ways.

Gray Line of Seattle

Wallace Arnold 5623 UB

I used to have chapter and verse on this Bristol single-decker in Western National service but mislaid it. It's depicted here at what is arguably Torrington in 1964. "JUO 988 is Southern National 1223, a 1948 Bristol L6B which originally had a Beadle half-cab coach body. In 1958 the coach body was removed, the chassis lengthened, and it was fitted with the ECW full-front bus body shown in your photo. It was sold in 1969. Service 143 was a Bideford – Abbotsham – Westward Ho! – Bideford circular, so I’m afraid not Torrington." Historical and other comments by courtesy of Michael Wadman.