"To view the Open Road" - Northern General Transport "sunshine coach" as seen in the 1936 NGT "Happy Holidays" booklet
The Tyneside based bus and coach operator, Northern General Transport Co Ltd., was formed in 1913 to act as the bus operations of the Gateshead tramways concern. The BET subsidiary grew into being a busy operator of stage service buses, express coach services and caoch holiday provider in the years after WW1. NGT was also one of the handful of operators who continued to both design and construct their own vehicles and these included the technologically and design advanced SE6 (Side Engined 6 wheel) type of vehicles that were bodied as both single deck buses and coaches. Along with other side and underfloor experiements of the day (including those such as the SE6 that had American components and influences) that included AEC's "Q" types, and Leyland's Cubs and Gnu's, the SE6 deserves to be better recorded for its influence on vehicle design. Amazingly one survives having been placed into the early British Transport Museum at Clapham in the 1950s and it is currently being restored due to some unfortunate damage it sustained many years ago.
I have to say this coach version really does look the '30s deco part!
"To view the Open Road" - Northern General Transport "sunshine coach" as seen in the 1936 NGT "Happy Holidays" booklet
The Tyneside based bus and coach operator, Northern General Transport Co Ltd., was formed in 1913 to act as the bus operations of the Gateshead tramways concern. The BET subsidiary grew into being a busy operator of stage service buses, express coach services and caoch holiday provider in the years after WW1. NGT was also one of the handful of operators who continued to both design and construct their own vehicles and these included the technologically and design advanced SE6 (Side Engined 6 wheel) type of vehicles that were bodied as both single deck buses and coaches. Along with other side and underfloor experiements of the day (including those such as the SE6 that had American components and influences) that included AEC's "Q" types, and Leyland's Cubs and Gnu's, the SE6 deserves to be better recorded for its influence on vehicle design. Amazingly one survives having been placed into the early British Transport Museum at Clapham in the 1950s and it is currently being restored due to some unfortunate damage it sustained many years ago.
I have to say this coach version really does look the '30s deco part!