Dewsbury Bus Museum
LEN101 - Bury 101
We are inside the depot of Bury Corporation for today’s Guy Wulfrunian photograph where we find 101 (LEN101) sitting over the old tram tracks.
This vehicle was the seventh Wulfrunian built and carried a body by Charles H Roe of Leeds. It was on display at the 1960 Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court but was on the Park Royal stand as the Roe stand was up to the limit on exhibits. It carried both Roe and Park Royal manufacturers’ plates.
Interestingly, she was fitted with a three-piece passenger door with two wide leaves folding towards the front and a single narrow leaf to the rear, thus avoiding obstructing the nearside staircase.
After just three years at Bury, she was withdrawn from service and sold to South Wales independent Howell and Withers who ran her for only a short while before selling her to Wrights of Penycae where she ran her on their service to Wrexham for about five years.
After that, she was sold to Jim Berresford of Cheddleton where she was only operated for a few days before being parked up in the field behind the depot. Here she remained for many years.
She was eventually taken to the GMPTE depot at Hyde Road in Manchester with a view to her eventual restoration into Bury colours but an incident with a training bus which caused major structural damage was to spell the beginning of the end for her.
The mangled bus was acquired by the West Riding Omnibus Preservation Society and the damaged body removed, leaving just the chassis and running gear. Over the years, this was stripped of usable parts to sustain their Wulfrunian and eventually, in 2020, the remaining chassis was cut up.
There is a superb article by Basil Hancock here:
www.brindale.co.uk/ach/prv_site/external_links/guy_wulfru...
Photograph supplied by John S Hinchcliffe
LEN101 - Bury 101
We are inside the depot of Bury Corporation for today’s Guy Wulfrunian photograph where we find 101 (LEN101) sitting over the old tram tracks.
This vehicle was the seventh Wulfrunian built and carried a body by Charles H Roe of Leeds. It was on display at the 1960 Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court but was on the Park Royal stand as the Roe stand was up to the limit on exhibits. It carried both Roe and Park Royal manufacturers’ plates.
Interestingly, she was fitted with a three-piece passenger door with two wide leaves folding towards the front and a single narrow leaf to the rear, thus avoiding obstructing the nearside staircase.
After just three years at Bury, she was withdrawn from service and sold to South Wales independent Howell and Withers who ran her for only a short while before selling her to Wrights of Penycae where she ran her on their service to Wrexham for about five years.
After that, she was sold to Jim Berresford of Cheddleton where she was only operated for a few days before being parked up in the field behind the depot. Here she remained for many years.
She was eventually taken to the GMPTE depot at Hyde Road in Manchester with a view to her eventual restoration into Bury colours but an incident with a training bus which caused major structural damage was to spell the beginning of the end for her.
The mangled bus was acquired by the West Riding Omnibus Preservation Society and the damaged body removed, leaving just the chassis and running gear. Over the years, this was stripped of usable parts to sustain their Wulfrunian and eventually, in 2020, the remaining chassis was cut up.
There is a superb article by Basil Hancock here:
www.brindale.co.uk/ach/prv_site/external_links/guy_wulfru...
Photograph supplied by John S Hinchcliffe