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Top Gear Leyland Royal Tiger Doyen E317 OMG
Pickup of Norden, Rochdale traded as Top Gear World Wide Travel and purchased three Leyland Royal Tiger Doyen coaches between 1983 and 1988. Their first A717 GJA was the second production Doyen built by Roe, their second B287 KRM was the 13th built at Workington, and was renumbered 12A because they never wanted the number 13 on the build plate (I kid you not folks!). The third Doyen (C53F) shown in this photograph was the very last Doyen to be registered in March 1988, it carried the frame number RTC87.27 meaning it was the 27th Doyen built in 1987.
Bill Pickup owner of Top Gear, told me he thought the Royal Tiger Doyen was the best thing since slice bread! Bill sold Top Gear to Holmeswood Coaches in the early nineties, these days his son runs a haulage business.
E317 OMG is seen arriving at the famous Turner's coach park, just off Rigby Road in Blackpool on a hot July day in 1988, to the left is the rear of a MacPHAILS Plaxton Paramount 3500 Volvo B10M, behind the Doyen is a Ford Fiesta Mk2. Behind me is Blackpool Football Club (founded in 1887) on Bloomfield Road. Blackpool Transport's depot is only stone's throw from this coach park, indeed on busy weekends when the illuminations were on, the Blackpool Transport depot was used as an overspill for coach parking. The famous Coliseum coach station owned by Ribble? was next to Blackpool Transport's depot.
The large Geometer to the left on Blundell Street was demolished in 2013, there were two Geometers in that area, a quick look on Blackpool's own newspaper The Gazette's website shows an article about the area to be cleared for housing in 2013.
Top Gear Leyland Royal Tiger Doyen E317 OMG
Pickup of Norden, Rochdale traded as Top Gear World Wide Travel and purchased three Leyland Royal Tiger Doyen coaches between 1983 and 1988. Their first A717 GJA was the second production Doyen built by Roe, their second B287 KRM was the 13th built at Workington, and was renumbered 12A because they never wanted the number 13 on the build plate (I kid you not folks!). The third Doyen (C53F) shown in this photograph was the very last Doyen to be registered in March 1988, it carried the frame number RTC87.27 meaning it was the 27th Doyen built in 1987.
Bill Pickup owner of Top Gear, told me he thought the Royal Tiger Doyen was the best thing since slice bread! Bill sold Top Gear to Holmeswood Coaches in the early nineties, these days his son runs a haulage business.
E317 OMG is seen arriving at the famous Turner's coach park, just off Rigby Road in Blackpool on a hot July day in 1988, to the left is the rear of a MacPHAILS Plaxton Paramount 3500 Volvo B10M, behind the Doyen is a Ford Fiesta Mk2. Behind me is Blackpool Football Club (founded in 1887) on Bloomfield Road. Blackpool Transport's depot is only stone's throw from this coach park, indeed on busy weekends when the illuminations were on, the Blackpool Transport depot was used as an overspill for coach parking. The famous Coliseum coach station owned by Ribble? was next to Blackpool Transport's depot.
The large Geometer to the left on Blundell Street was demolished in 2013, there were two Geometers in that area, a quick look on Blackpool's own newspaper The Gazette's website shows an article about the area to be cleared for housing in 2013.