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  1. Good to see all your hard work is now starting to reward you.
  2. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202205185853947 £395, Sheffield, if I had the space....
  3. We had HA vans at work until they were replaced by Marina and Metro vans in about 1983. They were quite spritely and easy to drive, certainly better than their replacements.
  4. Yes, Southdown were based there. Portsmouth was as the western end of their area, Hants and Dorset took over after that.
  5. We'll stay in Porstmouth and Southsea and have a look at the other main operator, Southdown. They operated the longer distance services and had an agreement with the council in terms of local pickups and set downs, as well as two depots, Hilsea and Churchill Road (near the centre which was for the coaches). So, 800 was a a 1956 Leyland PD2/12 fitted with East Lancs H59RD bodywork and here's a view of that rear end and the platform doors. I didn't realise then, but I was to own a 'H' reg Alpine with the vinyl roof in that colour a few years later. "We're proud to be part of of the National Bus Company, together we can really go places" is what that advert on the front of 420, a convertible open top Northern Counties bodied Leyland Titan PD3/4 says. They were better known as "Queen Marys" and were the staple Southdown double decker of the period. It had already lost its gold fleetnames for the standard NBC font and the registration would subsequently re-appear on various Stagecoach buses in later years. The NBC livery didn't look as well on these, as you can see on this 1966 delivery. The last batch of Queen Marys were delivered in 1967 and had panorama windows, here's 356. The NBC influence started on the double deckers fairly shortly after the NBC was formed, and Southdown started to receive batches of ECW bodied VRs. Chod a plenty on this view of 525. This isn't in Portsmouth, it's photographed in Sheffield at the SUT depot (they were part of BET so ended up in the NBC). There were regular weekend specials from military bases around the country for service men who were given weekend leave, so finding a Southdown coach wasn't unusual, a Bristol RESL with a bus seated body by Marshalls certainly was though. Northern Counties were a favorite of Southdown and they had these unusual Leopards as well. Nice HA van, and another (or the same) HA in this crappy winter shot of a very nice Harrington bodied Leopard. Southdown did have your more usual Plaxton bodied Leopards, here's 1210 showing its illuminated front name. Finally their tow wagon, was like Corporations a cut down TD Titan. I believe this is the now preserved EUF184, a TD5. Note the Southdown on the top of the radiator.
  6. Ex BEA, been a mobile home for a long time. Good to see it still around. Was NLP650.
  7. OK, they are Google Street View, but I see these regularly on the A61 on the way home from Sheffield.
  8. Liked for what it is, but fuck me, I seem to remember paying less for mine a long time ago.
  9. It's possible that the filters have never been changed and the metallic bits are due to the initial"wearing in" process years ago.
  10. Try it, then don't blame me as you run away thinking this engine is about to explode because it will not turn off.
  11. Oil bath air filters, that brings back memories. Just ensure if you get an apprentice to follow your instructions of "clean it out with petrol and refill it", they don't refill it with petrol.
  12. Even better when you read the full description,; "The car does show it's age since the photos have been taken as it has been parked up for the past 4 years. The car has an electrical fault. Last MoT 2018." Think I'll give it a miss
  13. Oh, for the days when you could ride a 250 on L plates without a CBT.
  14. My Ibiza estate clearly uses the saloon exhaust system, otherwise why would it finish two foot from the back of the car and piss off my MoT tester each year
  15. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284815871124?hash=item4250594c94%3Ag%3AiOIAAOSwfzFiZXIL&LH_Auction=1 A Matiz you might* want to own
  16. They all came with badges, some operators chose to have them fitted, others just stuck them in the stores. Hence why I have a Daimler badge.
  17. Somebody doesn't know their loco classes (gets anorak and leaves).
  18. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202205115583563 The description is as impressive as the only picture
  19. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202205125623785 1.1 for maximum enjoyment,
  20. Bolton bus station. Deckers are maroon with cream. Bus on far left looks to be a Ribble SARO (Saunders-Roe) bodied Tiger Cub which were new in 1954.
  21. And whilst mentioning CPPTD, hidden in the back of the depots were some splendid things back then. This Crossley Condor was built 1931 with Short Brothers 48-seat double deck bodywork as No.74 and was converted to breakdown wagon in 1948 It lasted until 1972 and is happily preserved. Also still with us (just) is this Leyland Titan TD2 RV3412. It was new in 1933 with an English Electric 50-seat double deck body and was one of two converted to Tower Wagons for maintenance of the trolleybus overheads. BK2986 is a Thornycroft J, built in 1919 for Portsmouth Corporation. It originally had a Wadham O16/18RO seater body but was rebodied in 1926 with an ex London General AEC B 1920 Dodson O16/18RO body. I believe it's at the Milestones museum in Basingstoke. Also at Milestones is tram 84, which the Corporation had kept from the end of operations in 1936. It was converted from a horse car in 1903 having originally been built in 1880 for use on the North Metropolitan Tramways Co. Ltd in London before being withdrawn and being used as a railgrinder before eventual restoration. Portsmouth (like Glasgow and a couple of other tramways), used the the strange 4ft 7 3/4in gauge tramway . Now at the East Anglian Transport Museum is trolleybus 313, RV938, a 1951 Burlingham bodied BUT.
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