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The Greater Manchester Transport Society’s former Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Transport 44 PTE 944C, a Leyland Titan PD2/37 built 1965 with a Roe H37/28F body on Corporation Street in Manchester with the 12:43 Museum of Transport to Museum of Transport via Shudehill Interchange and Queen Road Metrolink stop CentreShuttle 4 service followed by First Manchester Limited 66859 MX05 CHV, a Volvo B7RLE built 2005 with a Wrightbus Eclipse Urban B43F body with the 12:17 Prestwich (Tesco) to Manchester Shudehill Interchange via Carr Clough 93 service. Saturday 23rd March 2019
Note, PTE 944C was originally operated by Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation as number 44. Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation’s operations were transferred to the Southern division of the Selnec Passenger Transport Executive on 1st November 1969, PTE 944C being renumbered 5444 in the Selnec Passenger Transport Executive’s March 1970 renumbering scheme. The Selnec Passenger Transport Executive’s operations were transferred to the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive on 1st April 1974 due to local government reorganisation. PTE 944C was withdrawn from service in early 1979 but retained for preservation. PTE 944C’s ownership was transferred at some time to the Greater Manchester Transport Society
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Dating from 1901, former Hull Corporation tram 96 is pictured outside the workshop at the Heaton Park Tramway during their 'Tramtastic' event prior to operating in service on July 2nd 2022.
A former Sheffield Corporation tram, No 513, carries passengers around the recreated streets of the East Anglia Transport Museum, at Carlton Colville, near Lowestoft, during one of the site's Thursday afternoon openings.
Built by Charles Roberts & Co Ltd, No 513 entered service in 1951. She was withdrawn just nine years later. No 513 was one of a class of 35 powerful, four-wheel trams ('Roberts' cars) suitable for Sheffield's hills. No 513 has two 65hp Metrovick MV101 DR3 motors. Fully enclosed with folding platform doors, No 513 was part of the last batch of double deckers to enter service in the UK. She featured in Sheffield's 'Last Tram' night. No 513 was stored at various places before working at Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, her owners, then in Blackpool. The tram arrived at Carlton Colville circa 2010. After a partial overhaul at the East Anglia Transport Museum, she entered service at the site.
The one remaining Northern Counties bodied Daimler from the batch of 20 (150-169) in the Northampton Corporation fleet trundles up London Road no doubt making for Grafton Regis where its garaged...July 22 2015.
Seen here at Park Square, Luton circa 1968 is Albion Lowlander / East Lancs (Neepsend) 178 HTM. The vehicle had been new to the operator in December 1963 and passed to United Counties on their takeover of the Luton undertaking in January 1970. This batch of vehicles were dogged by problems from the start and did not fit well into the UCOC fleet, all being withdrawn within a couple of years.
Scanned from an acquired print.
The junction of Deansgate and Victoria Street in Manchester outside Manchester Cathedral
Note, the statue of Oliver Cromwell was erected in 1875 by local Liberal politicians, and was moved due to inner-city redevelopment in the 1980s to Wythenshawe Hall
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Bournemouth Corporation 176 is standing on Yorkshire Traction's Doncaster depot in Milethorn Lane. It is a Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 with Weymann bodywork, new in 1964. It was hired by YTC for a few weeks to provide additional capacity during the run up to Christmas.
'UMBRELLA CORPORATION - RESIDENT EVIL COSPLAY' - 'MAGNA SCIENCE MUSEUM COSPLAY EVENT' - 'UNLEASHED EVENTS' - OCTOBER 5th 2023
Displaying accident damage on it's offside when less than a year old is Luton Corporation's Bristol RE / ECW PXE 115G. The vehicles were later taken over by United Counties but were non-standard in the fleet, however most of the later semi-auto ones lasted until around 1980 - 81, only the earlier manual boxed ones were withdrawn earlier.
Scanned from an acquired, un-copyrighted slide.
Preserved former Edinburgh Corporation Alexander bodied Leyland Atlantean PDR1A/1, 300 (WFS300K), seen here on display at the North East Bus Preservation Trust's North East Bus and Coach Show at the Gateshead Metrocentre on the 5th May 2024.
The rapid demise of street tramways in Britain saw many relatively modern trams looking for new homes. Glasgow acquired 46 Green Goddess trams from Liverpool, although they were not entirely successful, proving to be too long and only seeing short second lives. Sheffield's Roberts cars may have been a better proposition had they been available at the right time. The Sheffield system closed in 1960, only two years before the last Glasgow trams ran. This fictional image is based on Sheffield 513, one of two Roberts cars preserved, photographed at Blackpool in the late 1980s. I had intended to produce a Blackpool version but the source image proved to be of insufficient quality to carry the darker Blackpool livery (25-Sep-12).
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An old photograph *hand colourised (if you want to use it, at least credit me and link to this description please!) by me, of Leeds City Tramways (LCT) tram No. 444 showing '11 Gipton Estate via Meadow Lane' destination blinds.
The photo reverse is stamped with the photographer and/or negative owner name Robert F. Mack (aka Bob Mack). It was taken by Bridge End, at the junction of Meadow Lane, Hunslet Road, and Hunslet Lane.
No 444 was built by LCT at Kirkstall Road as a fully enclosed 'Chamberlain' class car seating 26/46 and running on an EMB Pivotal truck. It went into service Oct 1927, last ran in service Jul 1952, and in Dec 1952 was burned at Lowfields Road Permanent Way Yard. The parts of the Leeds tramways systems that had not already been withdrawn or transferred to bus operation closing in Nov 1959.
Service 11 'Corn Exchange - Gipton' closed in Apr 1955.
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Stockport Corporation Transport Leyland Titan PD2/30 waiting by the Wellington Rd Bridge close to Mersey Square. The ten buses in this 1960 built batch had bodywork by Longwell Green.
Blackpool Corporation Transport, Leyland Atlantean AN68A/2R bus 334, opposite the main entrance to Stanley Park, West Park Drive, Blackpool. Sunday 04 July 2021
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Manchester Corporation: 3706 (3706 VM) a Metro Cammell bodied Leyland Titan, preserved painted in Manchester's red livery with cream band when captured here in Manchester's Heaton Park whilst attending the 2017 Trans Lancs Transport Show..
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 3rd September 2017.
Ref No. 0039480.
Luton Corporation acquired several ex-Eastern National / United Counties Bristol K types in the early 1960's which had received ECW rebodies in May 1953, the giveaway being the narrower chassis fitted with a later 8 foot wide body. They had originally been new in March 1941 and so by the time of this shot in the mid-1960's the vehicle chassis was approaching 25 years old. It is seen here at Luton Corporation's Kingsway depot.
Scanned from an acquired print copyright Geoff Lumb.
Corporation Street, Birmingham City Centre, while operating service 935 to Walsall. The 934/935/936 is usually operated by Enviro 400s, some carrying green route branding.
2015-02-02 11.00.49
Preserved Birkenhead Corporation Massey bodied Leyland Titan PD1 105, BG 9225 is pictured at Port Sunlight whilst working an excursion from the 2015 Wirral Bus & Tram Show.
Preserved Halifax Corporation GJX 331 119
Fleet: 119
Reg: GJX 331
Operator: Halifax Corporation
Route: 61 - Wedding Special
Depot: KBMT
Livery: Halifax Corporation
Type: Daimler CVG6/ Roe
Location: Saltaire Running Day
Preserved Eastern Counties Bristol OCK 995K
Fleet: N/A
Reg: OCK 995K
Operator: Eastern Counties
Route: 61 - Bradford
Depot: N/A
Livery: Eastern Counties
Type: Bristol VRT/ ECW OT5
Location: Saltaire Running Day
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West Yorkshire Bus Spotter, WYBS
ACME Transport Service, Corp.
Coach builder: Hyundai Motor Company
Model: Hyundai Universe Space Luxury Coach
Transmission: Manual
Area of operation: Provincial operation
Fare type: Air conditioned
Country of origin: South Korea
Which back is better?
1: Plain
2: Blue, maroon & yellow square
3: Dark blue, maroon & orange
From Derby's first delivery of trolley buses,they were Guy BTX with Brush H29/27R bodies delivered in 1932 Nos 79-84.
84 was being tested round the system here followed by one of the Brush bodied Guy FC buses.
SoulRider.222 / Eric Rider © 2022
The M42 40 mm Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun, or Duster; is an American armored light air-defense gun built for the United States Army from 1952 until December 1960, in service until 1988. Production of this vehicle was performed by the tank division of the General Motors Corporation. It used components from the M41 light tank and was constructed of all-welded steel.
A total of 3,700 M42s were built. The vehicle has a crew of six and weighs 49,500 lbs fully loaded. Maximum speed is 45 mph with a range of 100 miles. Armament consists of fully automatic twin 40 mm M2A1 Bofors, with a rate of fire of 2×120 rounds per minute enabling nearly 85 seconds of fire time before running out of ammo, and either a .30 caliber Browning M1919A4 or 7.62mm M60 machine gun.
Initially, the 40 mm guns were aimed with the assistance of a radar fire control system housed in a secondary vehicle of similar design but this idea was scrapped as development costs mounted.
The 500 hp, six-cylinder, Continental (or Lycoming Engines), air-cooled, gasoline engine is located in the rear of the vehicle. It was driven by a cross-drive, two-speed Allison transmission.
Although the M42 Duster was initially designed for an anti-aircraft role, it proved to be effective against unarmored ground forces in the Vietnam war.
Production of the M42 began in early 1952 at GM's Cleveland Tank Plant. It entered service in late 1953 and replaced a variety of different anti-aircraft systems in armored divisions. In 1956, the M42 received a new engine and other upgrades along with other M41 based vehicles, becoming the M42A1. Production was halted in December 1960 with 3,700 examples made during its production run.
Sometime in the late 50s, the U.S. Army reached the conclusion that anti-aircraft guns were no longer viable in the jet age and began fielding a self-propelled version of the HAWK SAM instead. Accordingly, the M42 was retired from front line service and passed to the National Guard with the last M42s leaving the regular Army by 1963, except for the 4th Battalion, 517th Air Defense Artillery Regiment in the Panama Canal Zone, which operated two batteries of M42s into the 1970s.
The HAWK missile system performed poorly in low altitude defense. To ensure some low altitude anti-aircraft capability for the ever-increasing amount of forces fielded in South Vietnam, the Army began recalling M42A1s back into active service and organizing them into air defense artillery (ADA) battalions. Starting in the fall of 1966, the U.S. Army deployed three battalions of Dusters to South Vietnam, each battalion consisting of a headquarters battery and four Duster batteries, each augmented by one attached Quad-50 battery and an artillery searchlight battery.
Despite a few early air kills, the air threat posed by North Vietnam never materialized and ADA crews found themselves increasingly involved in ground support missions. Most often the M42 was on point security, convoy escort, or perimeter defense. The Duster; (as it was called by U.S. troops in Vietnam) was soon found to excel in ground support. The 40 mm guns proved to be effective against massed infantry attacks. According to an article that appeared in Vietnam Magazine:
M42s were old pieces of equipment that needed a lot of maintenance and required hard-to-get spare parts. The gasoline-powered Dusters were particularly susceptible to fires in the engine compartment. Thus, despite its cross country capability, it was not wise to use the Duster in extended search and destroy operations in heavy jungle terrain because of excessive wear on engines, transmissions, and suspensions.
On the plus side, the Duster was essentially a fairly simple piece of machinery on which the crews could perform maintenance. Better yet, the Duster's high ground clearance and excellent suspension-system design gave it an ability to withstand land mine explosions with minimal crew casualties.
Although the Duster's 40mm shell had a terrific blast and fragmentation effect, it also had a highly sensitive point-detonating fuse that limited effectiveness in heavy vegetation. Under those conditions, the better weapon was the Quad, because the heavy .50-caliber projectile could easily punch through cover that would detonate the Duster's 40mm shell too early for it to be effective. At long ranges, however the 40mm shell was far more useful, particularly against field formations. The Duster also was able to deliver indirect fires by using data from field artillery fire-directions centers.
Soldiers of the 1-44th Artillery and their Marine counterparts in I Corps set the pattern of Quad and Duster operations. Because of an early scarcity of armored-combat vehicles, M42s were first used as armor. Often thankful men quickly learned the value of high volumes of 40mm and .50-caliber fire, both in the field and perimeter defenses. Quads beefed up the defenses of remote fire bases, while Dusters accompanied both supply and tactical convoys along contested highways to break up ambushes. Dusters of Battery C, 1-44th Artillery, led the task force of Operations Pegasus that broke the siege of Khe Sanh in April 1968. Dusters and Quads provided critical final-protective fires throughout Vietnam during the Tet offensive and later took part in Operation Lam Son 719. Whenever fire support was needed, M42s could be found.
Most of the Duster crew members had their AIT training in the 1st Advanced Individual Training Brigade (Air Defense) at Fort Bliss, Texas. Some of the Duster NCOs had received training at the Non Commissioned Officers Candidate School which was also held at Fort Bliss, Texas.
The 1st Battalion, 44th Artillery was the first ADA battalion to arrive in South Vietnam on November 1966. A self-propelled M42A1 Duster unit, the 1-44th supported the Marines at places like Con Thien and Khe Sanh Combat Base as well as Army divisions in South Vietnam's rugged I Corps region. The battalion was assigned to I Field Force, Vietnam and was located at Đông Hà. In 1968 it was attached to the 108th Artillery Group (Field Artillery). Attached to the 1-44th was G Battery 65th Air Defense Artillery equipped with Quad-50s and G Battery 29th Artillery Searchlights. The 1-44th served alongside the 3rd Marine Division along the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in I Corps thru December 1971. Sergeant Mitchell W. Stout, a member of C Battery, 1-44th Artillery was awarded the Medal of Honor.
The second Duster battalion to arrive in Vietnam was the 5th Battalion, 2nd Air Defense Artillery. Activated in June 1966 it arrived in Vietnam in November 1966 and was diverted to III Corps, II Field Force, Vietnam and set up around Bien Hoa Air Base. Attached units were D Battery71st Air Defense Artillery equipped with Quad-50s and I Battery, 29th Artillery Searchlights. The Second First; served the southern Saigon region through mid 1971. D-71st Quads remained active through March 1972.
The third Duster battalion to arrive was the 4th Battalion, 60th Air Defense Artillery. Activated in June 1966 it arrived in Vietnam in June 1967 and set up operations in the Central Highlands, based out of An Khê (1967–70) and later Tuy Hoa (1970-71). Attached units were E Battery 41st Artillery equipped with Quad-50s and B Battery, 29th Artillery Searchlights (which were already in country since October 1965). Members of these units not only covered the entire Central Highlands, but also supported firebases and operations along the DMZ to the north and Saigon to the south.
Each Duster Battalion had four line batteries (A, B, C, D) and a headquarters battery. Each battery had two platoons (1st, 2nd), which contained four sections each with a pair of M42A1 Dusters. At full deployment there were roughly 200 M42 Dusters under command throughout the entire war. The Duster and Quads largely operated in pairs at firebases, strong points, and in support of engineers building roads and transportation groups protecting convoys. At night they protected the firebases from attack and were often the first targets of enemy sappers, rockets, and mortars. Searchlight jeeps operated singly but often in support of a Duster or Quad section at a firebase.
Between the three Duster battalions and the attached Quad-50 and Searchlight batteries over 200 fatalities were recorded.
The three M42A1 equipped ADA battalions (1-44th, 4-60th and 5-2d) deactivated and left Vietnam in late December 1971. Most if not all of the in-country Dusters were turned over to ARVN forces. Most of the training Dusters at Fort Bliss were returned to various National Guard units. The U.S. Army maintained multiple National Guard M42 battalions as a corps-level ADA asset. 2nd Battalion, 263 ADA, headquartered in Anderson, SC was the last unit to operate the M42 when the system was retired in 1988.