Pond life
Sheffield’s Pond Street Bus Station was always a good location to photograph the city’s bus fleet. A representative sample of Sheffield Corporation buses was captured parked up between duties, alongside an older driver training vehicle that had been retired from passenger service.
Sheffield Corporation embraced high-capacity rear-engined double deckers after 1960, and large numbers of Leyland Atlanteans and Daimler Fleetlines joined the fleet. Speeding up the conversion of routes to one-person operation, double-doored 33-ft long vehicles became the standard after 1968, well represented in this line-up. At the left are 672/670 (DWB672/670H), Leyland PDR2 Atlanteans with Park Royal bodywork, new in 1970. Alongside is an earlier PDR2, no.117 (YWA117G), new in 1968, whose Park Royal bodywork has a shallower windscreen. An earlier generation is represented by 101 (DWJ101B), a Daimler CRG6 Fleetline delivered in late 1964.
Rear-loaders survived in passenger in small numbers at the date of this view. Life-expired AEC Regent V/Weymann XWJ612 dated from 1957 but enjoyed a few extra years in the Sheffield training fleet.
July 1972
Zorki 4
Agfa CT18 film.
Pond life
Sheffield’s Pond Street Bus Station was always a good location to photograph the city’s bus fleet. A representative sample of Sheffield Corporation buses was captured parked up between duties, alongside an older driver training vehicle that had been retired from passenger service.
Sheffield Corporation embraced high-capacity rear-engined double deckers after 1960, and large numbers of Leyland Atlanteans and Daimler Fleetlines joined the fleet. Speeding up the conversion of routes to one-person operation, double-doored 33-ft long vehicles became the standard after 1968, well represented in this line-up. At the left are 672/670 (DWB672/670H), Leyland PDR2 Atlanteans with Park Royal bodywork, new in 1970. Alongside is an earlier PDR2, no.117 (YWA117G), new in 1968, whose Park Royal bodywork has a shallower windscreen. An earlier generation is represented by 101 (DWJ101B), a Daimler CRG6 Fleetline delivered in late 1964.
Rear-loaders survived in passenger in small numbers at the date of this view. Life-expired AEC Regent V/Weymann XWJ612 dated from 1957 but enjoyed a few extra years in the Sheffield training fleet.
July 1972
Zorki 4
Agfa CT18 film.