Ledgard lives!
OK, not in Otley, Guiseley, Pudsey or anywhere else in Ledgard's old operating area, but Addlestone, Surrey (which is where RLH32's Weymann bodywork was built in 1952).
Nor was RLH32 ever operated in the blue and grey of the Executors of Samuel Ledgard of Armley, Leeds, but five sister buses from the earlier 1950 KYY-registered batch were, so full marks to TimeBus for reviving the memories of a very fine and much-missed bus operator.
Samuel Ledgard has a special place in my life: I was lured to its large fleet of former London Transport buses at a time when I had yet to see London, thus giving me the chance to underline a couple of numbers in my Ian Allan ABC British Bus Fleets - LondonTransport (1963 Edition). The first photo I ever took of a bus was that of 1949U, a Roe-bodied AEC Regent V, in Otley in June 1966. (I had good taste from the outset.)
Samuel Ledgard ceased operating in October 1967, selling its services to West Yorkshire Road Car, who retained a handful of vehicles though none of the ex-LT fleet. I have been in mourning ever since, longer in fact than Queen Victoria was in her widow's weeds after the death of her beloved Albert.
Ledgard lives!
OK, not in Otley, Guiseley, Pudsey or anywhere else in Ledgard's old operating area, but Addlestone, Surrey (which is where RLH32's Weymann bodywork was built in 1952).
Nor was RLH32 ever operated in the blue and grey of the Executors of Samuel Ledgard of Armley, Leeds, but five sister buses from the earlier 1950 KYY-registered batch were, so full marks to TimeBus for reviving the memories of a very fine and much-missed bus operator.
Samuel Ledgard has a special place in my life: I was lured to its large fleet of former London Transport buses at a time when I had yet to see London, thus giving me the chance to underline a couple of numbers in my Ian Allan ABC British Bus Fleets - LondonTransport (1963 Edition). The first photo I ever took of a bus was that of 1949U, a Roe-bodied AEC Regent V, in Otley in June 1966. (I had good taste from the outset.)
Samuel Ledgard ceased operating in October 1967, selling its services to West Yorkshire Road Car, who retained a handful of vehicles though none of the ex-LT fleet. I have been in mourning ever since, longer in fact than Queen Victoria was in her widow's weeds after the death of her beloved Albert.