island traction
Wartime Mancunian 596.
Manchester 596 in an odd pose for what looks like an official MCTD photograph. Probably taken in Stevenson Square given the route. 596 appears to have a replacement painted steel radiator shell with a more prominent V at the top in the style of the postwar radiator shell. It has lost its nearside headlamp and a blackout mask covers the offside one. It does not appear to have had a repaint since prewar given the fine brown lining out visible on the upper deck front panel.
This batch of 56 buses 546-601 were intended to be the first Streamliners, but given MCTD's urgency for new buses Metro Cammell offered earlier delivery on those built as Standards thus only 551-564 were built as Streamliners, the remainder as Standards.
A sign of the evolving Crossley is the ribbing on the nearside mudguard, a feature that was carried over to late postwar buses and coaches.
Wartime Mancunian 596.
Manchester 596 in an odd pose for what looks like an official MCTD photograph. Probably taken in Stevenson Square given the route. 596 appears to have a replacement painted steel radiator shell with a more prominent V at the top in the style of the postwar radiator shell. It has lost its nearside headlamp and a blackout mask covers the offside one. It does not appear to have had a repaint since prewar given the fine brown lining out visible on the upper deck front panel.
This batch of 56 buses 546-601 were intended to be the first Streamliners, but given MCTD's urgency for new buses Metro Cammell offered earlier delivery on those built as Standards thus only 551-564 were built as Streamliners, the remainder as Standards.
A sign of the evolving Crossley is the ribbing on the nearside mudguard, a feature that was carried over to late postwar buses and coaches.