A brown Browns' bus.
In-between other hobby type occupations like scanning friends' photo collections, I'm still occasionally knocking out the odd colourisation, something which I find therapeutic.
Part of the aim of learning to do such was to be able to represent lost operators and their varied liveries from my own area. Needless to say, the use of other peoples material is necessary and I'll make a point of crediting them if I'm aware. Unfortunately, this print came with no such information.
Browns Motor Co. of Tunstall (Stoke on Trent) was once one of the area's largest independent operators. Not unexpectedly they settled on a brown livery. In the early 1950s they were acquired by PMT, and with that purchase came the fleet and the garage in Scotia Road. The latter then became PMT's Burslem premises.
JVT 16 was a Duple bodied Daimler CWA6 allocated to the firm by The Ministry of Supply who deemed Browns sufficiently important as to deserve both new double deckers and new (Bedford) singles. JVT 16 arrived in 1945 just as WW2 was drawing to a close. Its seen here in Burslem about to head for Leek. PMT took this bus into stock and gave it a new body.
A brown Browns' bus.
In-between other hobby type occupations like scanning friends' photo collections, I'm still occasionally knocking out the odd colourisation, something which I find therapeutic.
Part of the aim of learning to do such was to be able to represent lost operators and their varied liveries from my own area. Needless to say, the use of other peoples material is necessary and I'll make a point of crediting them if I'm aware. Unfortunately, this print came with no such information.
Browns Motor Co. of Tunstall (Stoke on Trent) was once one of the area's largest independent operators. Not unexpectedly they settled on a brown livery. In the early 1950s they were acquired by PMT, and with that purchase came the fleet and the garage in Scotia Road. The latter then became PMT's Burslem premises.
JVT 16 was a Duple bodied Daimler CWA6 allocated to the firm by The Ministry of Supply who deemed Browns sufficiently important as to deserve both new double deckers and new (Bedford) singles. JVT 16 arrived in 1945 just as WW2 was drawing to a close. Its seen here in Burslem about to head for Leek. PMT took this bus into stock and gave it a new body.