Stephen,

I'm afraid I am old enough to admit doing the customers drawing for the
first
single deck Fleetline that Grimsby had which was exhibited at Earls Court in
1966!!!

A copy of the drawing is actually on the vehicle, which is preserved, and
owned by
Nigel Rhodes of Lincoln.(Photo Attached)

I therefore remember the Bournemouth Roadliners, which had the same floor
layout
as the prototype PMT vehicle built by Marshalls. (It's amazing what went
through various factory
doors in those days!!)

The Halifax vehicles were similar to the Grimsby ones, but only had a single
door and were
traditional in there appearance with domes front and rear.

Other vehicles built similar to Grimsby, were a Daimler Demo, which went to
Rochdale, who
ordered 4 others I believe, and 2 for Rotherham, which had overdrive
resulting in a power bulge
on the offside, below the radiator grille! Both of these orders had double
folding wide doors.

The Derby vehicles were the first built to 2 1/2 Metres wide, as were the 11
metre long vehicles.

Regards

Phil



-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Allcroft [mailto:stephenallcroft@...]
Sent: 05 April 2005 15:58
To: therearenginedbusclub
Subject: [the rear engined bus club] Willowbrook damilers WAS:NGT
saloons



Thanks Phil,

IIRC, Bournemouth's Roadliners also had Willowbrook bodies.

NGT's Fleetlines had Willowbrook, Alexander W type and (the ex-Maidstone &
District ones) Marshall bodies. I've also a feeling that the very first SRGs
for Grimsby-Cleethorpes and Halifax were Willowbrook, as were batches for
South Shields (delivered to Tyneside PTE) and Derby.

Stephen


> From:: "sprite892003" <pnorris@...>
> To: therearenginedbusclub@...
> Subject: Re: [the rear engined bus club] New group_Roadliner_NGT saloons
> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:12:56 -0000

> <pre>
>
> The Daimlers were Fleetlines, but built with Willowbrook bodies. They
> were built at the same time as 20 for Northampton and 2 for RTITB,
> which subsequently went to Graham's of Paisley.
> The only Roadliners to come out of Loughborough were exported to
> Canada under the Duple name, to both Edmonton (28) and Calgary (3)
>
> Ex Willowbook Phil
>
> --- In therearenginedbusclub@..., "Tony" <ken@a...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Tony replies:
> > I concur with that too. From memory, these single-deckers were
> > Alexander W types on Fleetline SRG6LX-36's. I know that Northern
> > General did have some secondhand buses at this time, mostly AEC
> > Renowns from East Yorkshire but my records show no reference to
> > Roadliners.

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