It was a lot of money Ray , you’re right , but as you know , many things were quite expensive in those days . Take hand tools for just one example . However times have changed and you can buy a half decent bike for a tenner at a car boot sale these days , but unfortunately car boot sales didn’t exist back then .
If I need anything nowadays I go straight down to the scrapyard in Miry lane . You’d be amazed at the range of useable stuff that people chuck away that can be acquired for nowt , or next door to nowt . It’s sort of like a cash and carry for tramps to put it one way .
I’ve even been known to pull stuff out of the pile and flog it on ; but keep that to yourself mind .
Ribble Leyland PD2, fleet number 1364 at Wigan bus station, on route number 308,
Wigan to Chorley. The same bus, seen at the end of its days at Orkney Island.
Ray.
Ray, 1309 was operated by James D Peace from St Margarets Hope on South Ronaldsay to carry school children over the four Churchill Barriers to Kirkwall Grammar School on the Orkney Mainland however this worked fine in summer time but in the winter gales a double decker is not a safe journey. Jim Peace also had a Strachan bodied Guy Arab ex Highland Omnibus Co. 1309 was returned to the Scottish mainland and driven back to Lancashire. It was reported that the bus negotiated the notorious Berriedal Brae north of Helmsdale nae bother at a. Having driven Leyland Leopards up and doon Berriedale a few times you need to know how to tackle hills like this. The road was completly realigned about 3 years ago.
This location is Strand Road, Bootle in what looks like the mid 1950s. The bus is one of a hundred
Daimlers bought in the late 1940s. This bus, D577, was one of 50 of the Daimlers with bodywork
by Weymann. The other 50 Daimlers were bodied by Northern Counties of Wigan. During the late
1940s Liverpool Corporation acquired many different types, AEC, Crossley, Daimler. Guy, and Leyland.
Picture from Bootle Times Forum.
Glasgow city centre in the late 1950s. The tram on route 9 on the left is of the Glasgow Corporation fleet.
The tram further away is an ex Liverpool Corporation tram from the 1930s. Liverpool Corporation trams
ended in 1957 and sold a large number of trams to Glasgow. The Glasgow trams ended in 1962.
Ray Smyth:
Glasgow city centre in the late 1950s. The tram on route 9 on the left is of the Glasgow Corporation fleet.
The tram further away is an ex Liverpool Corporation tram from the 1930s. Liverpool Corporation trams
ended in 1957 and sold a large number of trams to Glasgow. The Glasgow trams ended in 1960.
