Hi, I am new to this Group. Just to let you know that I have purchased SCH116X. The LAST OFFICIAL FLEETLINE for preservation. It was last with Brylaine, and is...
I am hoping that tellietubby uk, ( hope that`s right), is reading this or anybody else who may know the answers that I am looking for. In 1986 London Country...
... reading ... for. ... which ... received? ... hi andy i do have some info on the buses you are intrested in so i shall dig it out tonight and send what info...
... from ... the ... dig ... Hi tellietubbie_uk Thanks for replying to my original message, I have been busy with a few other things of late and this is the...
Having spent a lot of time away from the bus world in order to get my life back into some sort of semblance of normality. The society still owns a number of...
Okay there is a blank version of this message floating about and I don`t know why. I am one of a group who have recently purchased an ex Strathclyde Atlantean....
Over the next few days I plan to post to the group an article and 3 tables about the rear -engined single deck buses in the UK from 1962- 69. This is a draft...
The forgotten Generation: British Low-Entry Single-deckers of the 1960s How did the early rear-engined single-deckers affect you? If you were in the majority,...
The Bristol RE was the most popular single deck rear-engined chassis of its era, with around 3500 low frame buses built until 1982. Ten UK coachbuilders...
The Leyland Panther's 11-metre length reduced its appeal for urban fleets and after 1967 the Bristol RE was available at 33ft with Leyland 0600 or 0680 engine...
The Panther Cub was maybe not a bus Leyland's engineers wanted to build, but Leyland's sales team promoted it heavily sending a Strachans-bodied demonstrator...
The Daimler Roadliner was two years late into production, Jaguar's plan to build the engine under licence failed and Cummins started to produce it at its...
Pennine's parent Seddon Diesel Vehicles Ltd must have noticed the forward orders for rear-engined single decks because in 1969 it launched its own. The...
Stephen - I have just joiuned the group.I found your article very interesting. I wrote a 12 page tome for "Buses Extra" on the Roadliner back in 1986 and had...
I am informed by its owner that this unique Daimler CRC6/36 (Cummins V6-200) Northern Counties H86D is now in undercoat at Wythall museum. It was rescued at...
Thanks Tony, Good to see the work that's being done on this unique to the UK bus. Is that paint undercoat? wasn't it rather paler when new? ... (Cummins ... ...
Hi Stephen, I did say in my message that it's undercoat, yes. You are quite right about it being paler when new - powder blue with ivory window pans. It was a...
I'd heard something of that before, but just imagine it! a fleeet of 11 metre double deck trolleys! ... The wait is "Ogre"! Shrek "2sday" is here! Buy the...
Hi Tony, Stupid question for you and it is unrelated to your new group, but How do you get the "join this club" button displayed. I have followed the...
Dear Jacky, I've a feeling the buses Northern had were single-deck Fleetlines and not Roadliners. AFAIR, the only BET/NBC fleets who had SRC6s & SRP8s were...
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...
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...
Thanks Phil, IIRC, Bournemouth's Roadliners also had Willowbrook bodies. NGT's Fleetlines had Willowbrook, Alexander W type and (the ex-Maidstone & District...
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...
Dear Phil, Thanks for all the additional Info, I remember travelling on the Grimsby-Cleethorpes SRGs on holidays in the 1970s. I'm afraid the group doesn't...
