I found this picture of a 6 wheeler AEC Routemaster recently. What a handsome machine.
Does anyone have any other pictures or info of this AEC bus ?. Ray.
Ray Smyth:
I found this picture of a 6 wheeler AEC Routemaster recently. What a handsome machine.
Does anyone have any other pictures or info of this AEC bus ?. Ray.
It is a photoshop, there has never been a six wheeler Routemaster. The original picture was of a red bus with a different background in which you could clearly see the join through the windows. Parts of the background were repeated. While there have been I think two five bay RMs constructed these have been done by substituting a full length bay for the short one. I cannot see any way that a six wheeler could be constructed without a complete redesign of the rear subframe and suspension. The body would need significant modification as well if coil springs were to be retained since there is not enough room to acccommodate them in between the two rear axles. Making it double drive with that axle spacing would require two Leyland underslung worm drive axles and insufficient room for a third diff on the nose of the first drive axle. There would probably be difficulties with the length of the inter axle propshaft.
A bus from the fleet of Diamond Buses passing through Pemberton on the
A577 on its way to pass through rural parts away from the the busy area
earlier today approx 09.30. All of the vehicles that I saw had their lights
on because of a very dull, dark, and wet morning.
Ray.
It seems that Stagecoach are selling off their Heritage Collection in several batches over the coming months. This old girl, although not in the first lot, will likely be coming up at some point soon. A 1935 Leyland Tiger TS7 with a 1950 Willowbrook body, it was fully restored by Yorkshire Traction around 1980/81, and was used on Specials and Private Hires until the Stagecoach takeover, when it was effectively sidelined. An arrangement was made for it to be displayed for a few years at the South Yorkshire Transport Museum, but earlier this year it was moved to Stagecoach Chesterfield for storage and eventual disposal.
Two classics from Yorkshire Traction, the ex-Doncaster Corporation Leyland Titanic and the two-stroke powered Foden, both acquired via the Barnsley British Co-operative Society from W&A Cawthorne in 1952. BBCS had bought Cawthornes after the death of the founder, but had been refused a stage carriage licence for the single route - Barnsley to Woolley Colliery, but they got the premises and the coach fleet, which is what they really wanted anyway. In those vehicle-starved days, both buses were taken into the Tracky fleet and repainted, although the Titanic didn’t stay long (sold to a showman in 1953), but the Foden lasted in service until December 1959, when it was replaced by a new Atlantean and sold to Frank Cowley, the Salford dealer/dismantler, where it was eventually broken up.
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Good grief! 
You couldn’t make that bottom picture up! 
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What we have here , I think , is an old daguerreotype featuring Dennis , Larry and Buzzer ( on the bottom platform ) with Harry Gill on the running board , and the entire management staff of BRS leaving Manchester to attend the North Eastern drivers reunion back in 1947 . That also could quite well be Dan Punchard peeping round that bobby to the right , although I wouldn’t swear to it .
Some good old footage in this 1950s video
youtube.com/watch?v=WzTpPxtHdLw
There are a few more very interesting Michael McGoldrick Old Buses videos.
Oily
Eddie Heaton:
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What we have here , I think , is an old daguerreotype featuring Dennis , Larry and Buzzer ( on the bottom platform ) with Harry Gill on the running board , and the entire management staff of BRS leaving Manchester to attend the North Eastern drivers reunion back in 1947 . That also could quite well be Dan Punchard peeping round that bobby to the right , although I wouldn’t swear to it .
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Mostly Indians NO cowboys
Oily
ERF-NGC-European:
Good grief!
Don’t they have Indian bus conductors ‘Darn Sarf’. 
They say that every picture tells a story, so here it is.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill
In 1887, invited by the British businessman, John Robinson Whitley, Cody took the show to Great Britain in celebration of the Jubilee year of Queen Victoria, who attended a performance.[10][32] It played in London and then in Birmingham and Salford, near Manchester, where it stayed for five months.
It’s hard to tell if that’s William Cody who is stood near the top of the stairs wearing a hat, because there are just too many Indians and not enough Chiefs in the picture. (S.W.I.D.T.) 
Good Afternoon
Visited the Wirral Transport Museum & Heritage Tramway last week, well worth a visit if you are in the area.
Open weekends Saturday and Sunday 13.00hrs to 16.00hrs.
No 1 Taylor Street Birkenhead CH41 1BG. they have several buses all of which saw active service on the Wirral, cars, motorcycles and Trams.
OOPS !!
Not sure why photographs have rotated themselves, just put a photograph on the Foden site and that came out the correct way, is there anybody out there who can rotate them please ?
Regards
John
J.F.G:
OOPS !!Not sure why photographs have rotated themselves, just put a photograph on the Foden site and that came out the correct way, is there anybody out there who can rotate them please ?
Regards
John[/quote
Hi J.F.G. With my self taught rather limited digital skills, I have turned them through 90 degrees. Cheers, Ray
Ray Smyth:
J.F.G:
OOPS !!Not sure why photographs have rotated themselves, just put a photograph on the Foden site and that came out the correct way, is there anybody out there who can rotate them please ?
Regards
John
[/quoteHi J.F.G. With my self taught rather limited digital skills, I have turned them through 90 degrees. Cheers, Ray
Thanks Ray
I have just noticed if you click on the sideways photograph, it corrects itself !!
Regards
John
First Bus have announced they’re pulling out of Southampton totally due to the strong competition from Blue star
First Bus South to end all services in Southampton bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-h … e-63797546
