DEANB:
oiltreader:
Quad axle(OZ lingo) at Canberra Australia.
OilyCant recall ever seeing a 8 wheeler coach before Oily !
Argentina 1968.
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I believe one was produced in Mexico labeled Sultana.
Inspectors(Checkers) with Birmingham City Transport would on occasion ring the depot and request a clean vehicle in exchange for a dirty one.
Particularly if some oike had had written someting in the dirt.!
Ribble Leyland PD2, fleet No. 1497, at Old Haymarket terminus in Liverpool.
Hi Valkyrie, whilst Charles Baroth might have been appreciative of the other Daimler qualities you refer to in your post, his over-riding reason for choosing Daimler was because it gave him the option of the Gardner engine. Mr Baroth had one important criteria in his decision makingâŚfuel consumption. Also, Gardner Engines factory at Patricroft, or Eccles, was an adjoining district of Salford. Many municipal bus fleets supported local factories producing major components for the buses they bought. Salford City Transport did use AEC Reliances with Weymann bodies on route 5, Victoria to Peel Green. which has a low bridge that carries the Bridgewater Canal over Barton Lane in Eccles.
Ray Smyth:
Chris, What a great picture. If my memory serves me well, this Scout PD3 looks like it has just reversed
from the old Ribble bus station in Preston, and is setting off to Lytham. This site was still in operation
when I joined Ribble early 1968. Regards, Ray.
Spot on Ray! Tithebarn Sreet, long since built over
ramone:
I remember Blackpool council ran a few of those
Yes indeed:
2GT_DaviesRITredegar_1972_NFV320_B02959c2 by Mike Street, on Flickr
Blackpool Corporation had a long standing tradition of specifying, not only concealed radiators on their Leyland Titans, but also full-fronted bodywork:
Blackpool DFV124 by Chris Stanley, on Flickr
My opinion is the exposed rad made a better looking bus, but then I only ever had experience of this type of rad on a Leyland decker. I think the covered front looks clumsy and toytownish. Tin hat on for incoming!!!Regards Kev.
240 Gardner:
ramone:
I remember Blackpool council ran a few of thoseYes indeed:
Blackpool Corporation had a long standing tradition of specifying, not only concealed radiators on their Leyland Titans, but also full-fronted bodywork:
The first photo brings back the memories and was the one i was thinking of ,thanks for posting 
oiltreader:
"Cant recall ever seeing a 8 wheeler coach before Oily ! "Been about for a while Dean
this one from 1922, courtesy of the The Old Motor blog.
Oily
Looks like a tramway carriage on tyred wheels.
Froggy55:
oiltreader:
"Cant recall ever seeing a 8 wheeler coach before Oily ! "Been about for a while Dean
OilyLooks like a tramway carriage on tyred wheels.
Read about it here:-
theoldmotor.com/?p=139984
Oily
kevmac47:
My opinion is the exposed rad made a better looking bus, but then I only ever had experience of this type of rad on a Leyland decker. I think the covered front looks clumsy and toytownish. Tin hat on for incoming!!!Regards Kev.
Me to Kev like the old wagons the distinct manufacturerâs rad had character, did many a shift on 956
Oily
oiltreader:
kevmac47:
My opinion is the exposed rad made a better looking bus, but then I only ever had experience of this type of rad on a Leyland decker. I think the covered front looks clumsy and toytownish. Tin hat on for incoming!!!Regards Kev.Me to Kev like the old wagons the distinct manufacturerâs rad had character, did many a shift on 956
Oily
An interesting picture because at first sight those are two Regent IIIs, but 956 is actually one of comparatively few Regent Vs built with a traditional exposed radiator. The immediate giveaway being the binnacle on 956, to the lack of one on Regent III 166 and also the angle of the applied handbrake. They would also sound completely different. Strangely however each seems to be sporting the otherâs type of front wheels.
Iâm going back about 40 years to when I delivered parcels. One of my regular customers was Lincolnshire Road Car in Bracebridge Heath. They were proper skilled mechanics in their and their dozens of Gardner engines in various states of rebuilding, racks of gearboxes and axles. I could have spent days in there. Instead of clippies there were female upholsterers mending slashed seats. Get that bus out!
This Guy Arab entered service at Hoeford on 7 October 1943. To celebrate its 75th âbirthdayâ, a special tour of some of its old routes was planned by the Provincial Society. On 27 October 2018, sixteen members enjoyed the nostalgic trip along the local roads of Fareham and Gosport, starting from a meeting point in West Street, Fareham. Heading south from there, the Guy called in to the Hoeford depot as a special surprise for those on board. First Hampshire & Dorset allowed us to enter their premises to take photos of the bus back at its original home with their Guy Arab no. 55 (EHO 228).
From there, the Guy headed south along the main road to Fort Brockhurst where it turned left towards Elson and made its first photo opportunity stop at the âWindsor Castleâ pub. Moving on, the bus stopped at the Criterion and other iconic sites such as St Vincent College and St Georges Barracks which havenât changed structurally since the 1940s. After a lunch stop at Gosport Ferry, the bus headed off west towards Haslar with a pause at the Cemetery gates in Clayhall Road and then on to the wall by Haslar Hospital. After that, the journey continued through Stokes Bay, Gomer Lane, Grange Road to Bridgemary for a final break for any photographs opposite the row of shops in Nobes Lane before heading back to Fareham. The preservation of this bus is important as it is unique having been converted to a coach-bus in 1953. The coach fittings including platform doors were removed in October 1963 when it reverted to normal bus duties. The restoration continues and the platform doors will be fitted to recreate the time when the Guy was operated as a âCoach-Busâ.
This image shows the bus, which carried fleet number 57 (EHO 869) with Provincial, parked in the Hoeford yard during the tour on 27 October 2018.
Some 1930s buses look more stylish and modern than the ones from 30 years later, to my eye.
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anorak:
Some 1930s buses look more stylish and modern than the ones from 30 years later, to my eye.
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Thatâs a rare thing, I think, a double deck Q?
DEANB:
oiltreader:
Quad axle(OZ lingo) at Canberra Australia.
OilyCant recall ever seeing a 8 wheeler coach before Oily !
Argentina 1968.
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Search Google images-Sultana bus.
cav551:
oiltreader:
kevmac47:
My opinion is the exposed rad made a better looking bus, but then I only ever had experience of this type of rad on a Leyland decker. I think the covered front looks clumsy and toytownish. Tin hat on for incoming!!!Regards Kev.Me to Kev like the old wagons the distinct manufacturerâs rad had character, did many a shift on 956
OilyAn interesting picture because at first sight those are two Regent IIIs, but 956 is actually one of comparatively few Regent Vs built with a traditional exposed radiator. The immediate giveaway being the binnacle on 956, to the lack of one on Regent III 166 and also the angle of the applied handbrake. They would also sound completely different. Strangely however each seems to be sporting the otherâs type of front wheels.
Hi cav551 956 was a cracking machine, Regent V with exposed rad, pre-selector, lovely bark off the exhaust, when re-verberating off a wall, music to the ears, happy days . 166, lesser powered, stick change. 956 was the last bus I drove, that was August 1962, so memory not that good on the finer details of what powered what.
Cheers
Oily
Edit⌠a pic of a later RegentV snapped 1961.
Hi Ray, I stumbled across this the other day and I thought that you might be interested in seeing it so I hope that the link works.
gmstories.org/2017/04/18/made-in-wigan/
I am really pleased to see this photo that Valkyrie posted because I was going to ask this question a couple of weeks ago. In the fifties I remember seeing Salford buses with a red knob above the cab which at the back of my mind I always thought that it might of been a Lancashire Rose. So what was that red thing above the cab between the top deck windows.
B.T.W. I am fairly sure that this photo was taken at the bottom of Briscoe Lane, Newton Heath as I can remember loading wire from the Richard Johnson and Nephew steel works a bit further up the road in the seventies.
And I always thought that the number 66 went to Peel Green in the sixties but I am sure that it was a double decker when I went on it. 
HI, FOLKS we had two ex Blackpool 311 and 317 ,passeda my test on one of them both went well and done us proud , Cheers BARRY