Yes, with Royal Blue running the Portsmouth to Bournemouth section.
I can only read the first little bit without signing up for all sorts. But that first bit conflicts with the history of the other companies, which had been running the shorter leg since 1919 and had already extended it to Portsmouth (from Margate) in the 1920s. Elliots wanted to add on the Bournemouth extension in 1929.
I can’t read the bottom line of the indicator, Is that Nackington?
Actually Strangler’s Lane Thanington.
I managed to look up East Kent Leyland TDs to find that the JG 8200 batch were TD4s, built in 1936 and rebodied in 1948 with ECW bodies. The picture of 8201 was of a TD4 on route 24 with legible blinds.
Thanington was properly called Thanington Without, the question being without what? a question which was never really answered until 2019 when it became without… “without”
Well researched cav551. I do remember in the very early '60s, the TD4s on the 24 route were replaced by Guy Arab Mk2 double-deckers. In (IIRC) 1973 or 4 much of that route was pedestrianised and the No.24 seemed to disappear.
As for Thanington Without: it meant without the city walls (using the old usage of the word ‘without’ to mean ‘outside’). You can learn anything on TNUK 
And some it is true!
And some it is true!
Nooo…
Glasgow Corporation Transport had 100 buses with reg no’s starting BUS. I wonder how much they would fetch today as cherished plates. NMP
Virtually the same livery as Halifax.
69 years ago this week I passed my test in one such bus a Guy Arab the test was from Kirkcaldy Bus Depot to Kinghorn pulling up at bus stops on the way with a couple of reversing manoeuvres at Kinghorn then back to the Depot with “we’ll be in touch” an anxious couple of weeks and got my badge. First shift single decker from outside Starks Park (Raith Rovers Football Ground) via the High Street to the Gallatown route. Happy days.
Sixty-nine years! That’s impressive.
Quite a baptism Ro, wintertime with the 5cylinder Gardners a bit stubborn to fire up in the mornings, the shunter moving from bus to bus with a lit rag bonnet up air filter off " wind her now" shout with a pall of thick black smoke filling the garage glad to get outside to fresh air.
Quite a few years later than your start, but 5 o’clock Monday mornings there was a haze of smoke over the yard as Cummins and 180 Gardners “burst into life” 
I remember a Maidstone & District driver telling me once that their Guy Arabs with five-pot Gardners had frack-to-bunt gearboxes.
Even more so when you realise he’s still only 75!
1935 vintage.