geordiedave66
MORE SOUTHAMPTON
Or Woolston to be precise.
One thing I admired about Southampton was its football team. Football has always been about money, to a certain extent, but now it's prescence has become almost obscene. It is more of a fat cat type business than a sport. However for decades Southamton kept in the top level with little money, shrewdness, hard work and ingenuity. Unfortunately that is not enough today, big bucks rule, it has all gone wrong for them big style and it is difficult to see them recovering their position in the top flight for a long time.
However I digress, seen here left to right, are the rear of an East Lancs bodied AEC Regent 5, a 1948 Par Royal open top bodied Guy Arab 3, a closed top 1954 example and finally a Park Royal bodied Leyland PD2.
The body work on the second of the two Guy Arabs looked very dated by 1954. The bodywork on the PD2 is truly hideous. It always seemed to me that Park Royal had stockpiled a lot of bodyparts for the AEC Bridgemaster, which had not sold well. Rather than destroy them, they had adapted them to other chassis, the result being extremely odd and top heavy.
Has any one any idea what the small box mounted on the front lower neasrside bulkhead of the Guys is for?
MORE SOUTHAMPTON
Or Woolston to be precise.
One thing I admired about Southampton was its football team. Football has always been about money, to a certain extent, but now it's prescence has become almost obscene. It is more of a fat cat type business than a sport. However for decades Southamton kept in the top level with little money, shrewdness, hard work and ingenuity. Unfortunately that is not enough today, big bucks rule, it has all gone wrong for them big style and it is difficult to see them recovering their position in the top flight for a long time.
However I digress, seen here left to right, are the rear of an East Lancs bodied AEC Regent 5, a 1948 Par Royal open top bodied Guy Arab 3, a closed top 1954 example and finally a Park Royal bodied Leyland PD2.
The body work on the second of the two Guy Arabs looked very dated by 1954. The bodywork on the PD2 is truly hideous. It always seemed to me that Park Royal had stockpiled a lot of bodyparts for the AEC Bridgemaster, which had not sold well. Rather than destroy them, they had adapted them to other chassis, the result being extremely odd and top heavy.
Has any one any idea what the small box mounted on the front lower neasrside bulkhead of the Guys is for?