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GRAINY COMINGS AND GOINGS AT NORTHUMBERLAND SQUARE.
For the last year of their existence, Northern Coach Builders, is alleged to have poached a draughtsman from Eastern Coach Works and developed this all metal ECW pastiche of the highbridge body, normally fitted to the Bristol K.
Northern General had a batch of these fitted to Guy Arab 3 chassis, with the same predictable, under achieving Gardner 5LW engine.
One of these, probably on loan to Tynemouth, is seen arriving in Northumberland Square, North Shields. Going the other way is a 1957 Leyland PD2 Willowbrook. There was a batch of ten of these PD2's, one of the first manifestations, of a change in engineering policy from Guy to Leyland within the Northern General Group, following the retirement of Major Hayter, the erstwhile general manager. It was said that if you knew where to look all these Willowbrook bodies were different. But they all looked the same to me.
Other automotive goodies on site are a mid fifties Morris Oxford or Cowley, a similar vintage Bedford CA van and a Mk 2 Ford Consul.
GRAINY COMINGS AND GOINGS AT NORTHUMBERLAND SQUARE.
For the last year of their existence, Northern Coach Builders, is alleged to have poached a draughtsman from Eastern Coach Works and developed this all metal ECW pastiche of the highbridge body, normally fitted to the Bristol K.
Northern General had a batch of these fitted to Guy Arab 3 chassis, with the same predictable, under achieving Gardner 5LW engine.
One of these, probably on loan to Tynemouth, is seen arriving in Northumberland Square, North Shields. Going the other way is a 1957 Leyland PD2 Willowbrook. There was a batch of ten of these PD2's, one of the first manifestations, of a change in engineering policy from Guy to Leyland within the Northern General Group, following the retirement of Major Hayter, the erstwhile general manager. It was said that if you knew where to look all these Willowbrook bodies were different. But they all looked the same to me.
Other automotive goodies on site are a mid fifties Morris Oxford or Cowley, a similar vintage Bedford CA van and a Mk 2 Ford Consul.