Anybody interested in old cars should watch ‘Bangers and Cash’.
I have been to their pre auction wharehouse a couple of times at Pickering, they let you walk round.
It is full of old cars from barn finds in appaling condition, to pristine as new restored models,.a lot of those old cars brought back a lot of memories, stuff my family members and friends had when I was a kid…and all MUCH smaller than I remember them.
Deffo worth a visit.
Wilson pre select box. Hundreds of 'em on London Transport buses not long ago. I only ever used one once and finished up with a ‘black thumb’, 
I wasn’t paying attention and I got my thumb caught in the gear change ‘gate’ . But they were a good bit of kit and a god send to LT drivers in London’s stop/start traffic
AEC Regent decker and Wilson pre-select, unbeatable armchair driving.
Oily
It so happened I was watching HubNut’s coverage of the same event last night, looks like a grand day out.
It is going (in pencil only admittedly) into next year’s calendar for me.
I did wonder if that’s what Remy was describing. Here’s a demo (but not on an RM)
Both the Leyland pneumocyclic and the SCG box had a stubby wee lever and a gate housed next to/ near the wheel. Different systems but similar controls.
Hells teeth, that’s depressing. A man has got to know his limitations (and I know mine). I’m so old and creaky now I could never mount that Daimler, I could drive it if I could get in (and where am I going to park my walking stick). 
Life is a bugga when you get old. 
Tell you what, I (a youngster well into his 7th decade) will get you a chairlift and I’ll even hold your stick/ zimmer frame
I’ve spent many a year getting my head and my hands and my feet working with all sorts of manual gearboxes and I like to think I’ve made a decent fist of it. None of it matters any more: it’s all electronickery these days.
That’s the gear change procedure. I should have called it a ‘pre-select’ box instead of an ‘automatic’ box.
That looks like Huddersfield, where the road forks for Bradley from Leeds Rd
No worries. I didn’t know the difference myself until a while ago
Seems we’ve all learned something. Despite having probably driven both versions, I’ve always called them SCG of Coventry gearboxes.
I’ve had them in various Leyland and AEC busses and an eight wheeled Scammell Routeman.
Bunny Hill Motors near Nottingham had a fleet of 6 Beavers with semi boxes, they kept breaking down though, perhaps we shouldn’t have been doing racing changes with them. No idea when that was, after K & M and before err, memory fails, probably sometime in the '70s. 
There used to be a brace of working traction engines in the yard at the bottom of Bunny Hill in the 1950s when we used to travel twixt Nottm and Loughborough.
I remember that style of frontage, but I seem to recall yellow wagons. Munro? From somewhere north of the border?
I remember that company too, but not like that.
