Spain and Portugal, all credit to Dave Fawcett for the photos.
Oily
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Paul John:
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OK Motor Services ex Halifax Corporation, 1960 AEC Regent V, MCCW H40.32F bodywork seen Bishop Auckland Market Place 1974.
OilyHi Oily. Looks like one of Carl Williams diesel transits in the shot there. Probably a York motor in it.
A lot of farm tractors of the same era were quieter
Oily
Either this one or its identical sister. They had the little Perkins diesel before Ford introduced the York
This bus is one of three front engined Volvo Citibus that Greater Manchester Transport
trialled in the early 1980s. All three were at one time based at Wigan Depot, and this
one is seen in Market Street in the town centre. NMP.
This AEC MkV, fleet number A270, was one of many supplied to Liverpool Corporation in the 1950s.
The location is Lime Street in the centre of Liverpool sometime in the 1960s. I always thought that
the front of the bus would have looked better if it had been fitted with a proper AEC radiator grill
instead of this slotted tin front. I imagine that it was connected with economies. Many of the large
number of Leyland PD2 buses in the fleet also had this type of MCW bodywork and plain slotted grill.
Picture from Bootle History Forum.
Ray Smyth.
Another Liverpool Corporation AEC Regent 111 bus, this one is Reg number FKB 358, and is seen on September 3rd 1939,
the day that Word War Two broke out. It is in Bold Street in the centre of Liverpool, loading children to evacuate
them to somewhere much safer because Liverpool became a target of the Luftwaffe.
Picture from Liverpool Echo Archive.
Ray Smyth.
This is a model of the bus in the previous picture, showing route 4B from Pier Head
to Penny Lane, and a side advert for Threlfalls Brewery.
A Leyland Atlantean with Alexander bodywork in the centre of Liverpool,
painted all over to advertise Higsons Brewery. NMP.
Ray Smyth.
Jim Stones was a bus and coach company that started in 1968, and retired earlier this year.
The depot was in Leigh, in Lancashire, and their routes radiated from there.
Their buses and coaches were always squeaky clean, even in the worst weather conditions.
This one is a Leyland DAB from 1983/84. Picture from Jim Stones website.
Click on picture for full image.
Ray Smyth.
I used to get the L3 to my grandads house in the 70s when I was a kid. 
A former Wigan Corporation Leyland Atlantean is on Station Road in Wigan town centre.
The Atlantean and the Leyland National are in the livery of Greater Manchester Transport.
The building at the rear is the ABC Cinema, formerly The Ritz. This road no longer exists,
it is now the main thoroughfare of " The Grand " shopping mall. NMP.
Ribble fleet number 1418 was one of a large number of Leyland PD2 buses with
bodywork by Metro-Cammell-Weymann. Many of these Leylands were in service
from 1955/56 until about 1973. NMP.
An interesting picture from the late 1960s. The Police cars are a Ford Anglia and an Austin Mini,
and the Liverpool Corporation bus is a Leyland PD2 with Crossley bodywork from 1956.
Picture from Bootle History Forum.
Ray Smyth.
My old stomping ground from many moons ago, I was born and dragged up in Bootle. 
Ribble fleet number 285 was a Bristol RE from 1970/71. It is seen here in Skelhorne Street
in the centre of Liverpool, beside Lime Street railway station. The bus is showing 307, which
I think went to Ormskirk via a circuitous route through country lanes, rather than the direct
route along the A59.
This Leyland PD2, Reg number DEK 2D, was new to Wigan Corporation toward the end of 1966.
The first 2 pictures are from when in service with the Corporation and later with Greater
Manchester Transport. I believe it then had several owners, including a period when it became
a Playbus for children. Doug Smith, a cranedriver with Ainscough Crane Hire, bought 139 to
restore it in memory of his father who was for many years, a PSV driver with Wigan Corporation.
In picture 3, it is at a bus rally at Haigh Hall near Wigan, it is the 5th bus from the left.
Picture 4 sees 139 at Its original home, Melverley Street bus depot, shortly before the
building was demolished. Pictures 5 and 6 are in its later days. I believe that DEK 2 D
is now owned by Finches Coaches of Wigan, whose vehicles are mainly double deckers.
Ray Smyth.
DEK2D was part of an order for 6 of these chassis. The other reg no’s were DEK3D Iregistered in Dec 66) followed by DEK4-7E (registered in April 67). I can’t think of any other time a series of reg no’s carried over to a new suffix number without a break (other than the change of suffix obviously).
